JONAH HILL MAY JOIN WOLF OF WALL STREET

Fresh off the success of his Oscar nominated role in Moneyball, Jonah Hill is in talks to team up with Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street where he may star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. 

The film is based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir (of the same name), wherein the disgraced Wall Street penny stock broker recounts his larger-than-life exploits during the last decade of the 20th century. Following Belfort’s founding of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont in 1990, the man would go on to make a living for several years, reaping thousands of dollars a minute – and blowing it on extravagant purchases (170-foot yachts, Gulfstream jets), six-digit hotel tabs, drugs and prostitutes, along with other items commonly associated with a “hard-partying” lifestyle.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, should Hill sign on for Wolf of Wall Street, he would portray Danny Porush, the eventual best friend and business partner to Belfort.