New Docuseries ‘The Real Wolf of Wall Street’ Set at Paramount+
DiCaprio played joyously and intensely Jordan Belfort in Scorsese’s 2013 Oscar nominated feature, epic The Wolf of Wall Street, about the former stockbroker and convict’s rise and fall.
However, an upcoming Paramount+ docuseries, The Real Wolf of Wall Street promises to unveil the true story of Belfort and his boiler room brokers at Stratton Oakmont, which is “even darker and more debauched than previously known.”
The three-part doc is currently in production from Maxine Productions (“Quiet on Set,” “The Fall of Diddy”) and See It Now Studios (the division behind recent true-crime docs “Don’t Date Brandon” and “Thirst Trap”), and it will premiere later this year.
As the head of Stratton Oakmont, Belfort led a stock market scheme that defrauded investors with “pump and dump” penny stock sales. Before it all came crashing down, he was famous for his extreme party lifestyle, which involved copious amounts of drugs, women and yachts. In 1999, after securities regulators had closed in on Stratton Oakmont, Befort pled guilty to securities fraud and money laundering charges. He served 22 months in federal prison and became an FBI informant, giving testimony against several of his co-conspirators. In 2007, he published the memoir “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which Scorsese adapted into his Oscar-nominated film of the same name.
“The Real Wolf of Wall Street” is produced by Maxine Productions (a part of Sony Pictures Television’s nonfiction arm) and Bloomberg. Executive Producers are Mary Robertson, Anneka Jones and Jesse Sweet for Maxine Productions; Jason Leopold for Bloomberg; Cassie Thornton, Amy Palmer and Michael Bloom. For See It Now Studios Susan Zirinsky and Terence Wrong are executive producers, and Aysu Saliba and Cara Tortora are supervising producers. Sweet also serves as the showrunner.
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