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Paramount+ has released the trailer for The Real Wolf of Wall Street.
The three-part docuseries reexamines the story of Jordan Belfort, who was the subject of Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street.
Belfort’s ex-wife is among those participating in the project.
It turns out that the big bad wolf was maybe even badder than we knew.
The new three-part docuseries The Real Wolf of Wall Street is set to reexamine the story of Jordan Belfort, the stockbroker-turned-criminal who was memorably played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese‘s The Wolf of Wall Street. There’s long been debate over whether the film scorned Belfort and company’s bad behavior or glorified it, and now the trailer for Real Wolf promises that things were wilder than the R-rated flick depicted.
“A lot of the movie was bulls—,” declares one interviewee, while another adds, “The Wolf of Wall Street doesn’t even accurately portray the level of insanity that occurred.”
Interestingly, Paramount Pictures distributed the film, and The Real Wolf of Wall Street will release July 14 on Paramount+.
An example of the previously undisclosed debauchery includes a pair female twins allegedly hooking themselves up to a car battery for $10,000.
DiCaprio was so mesmerizing as Belfort that Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the greatest performance of his illustrious career, but maybe it’s somehow still underrated, since he managed to make the troubled figure likable. Among the words used to describe the actual Belfort in The Real Wolf are “manipulative,” “a rat,” and “scumbag, lying piece of s—.’
Here’s the official logline for the series: “While the iconic Paramount Pictures film The Wolf of Wall Street saw Hollywood turn Jordan Belfort and his band of boiler room brokers at Stratton Oakmont into the face of ’90s excess, the story behind their rise is even darker and more debauched than previously known. Featuring never-before-seen footage, thousands of internal FBI documents, archival interviews, including insights from Jordan’s former wife, Nadine, whose dreams of a fairytale life turned toxic and firsthand accounts from onetime members of Belfort’s inner circle, the documentary uncovers the explosive true story of Belfort’s meteoric rise, his stunning fall and those he left stranded in his wake.”
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The Wolf of Wall Street was a $400 million smash hit and earned five Oscar nominations, including for Scorsese and DiCaprio. And while the 2013 film was based on Belfort’s own memoir, it didn’t shy away from showing the filthy rich businessman’s criminal and immoral activity, including his drug abuse, treatment of women, and financial dealings.
“Making movies is an interesting process,” DiCaprio said after winning a Golden Globe for his performance. “You put your entire life on hold. And these characters really do envelop you, for better or for worse. So, thank God none of the attributes of this character rubbed off on my real life, because I probably wouldn’t be standing here today.”
But with The Real Wolf of Wall Street, it’s clear that Belfort wasn’t lying when he promised that he wasn’t leaving.
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