10 Best Films Made From Black List Screenplays
3. The Wolf Of Wall Street
Adapted from the memoirs of the same name by real-life white-collar
crim Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street first appeared on the Black List
in 2007 with a screenplay penned by The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire writer
Terence Winter.
After spending a few years stuck in development hell, at one point with Ridley Scott attached to direct, the movie was finally greenlit in 2012 with Martin Scorsese directing and Leonardo DiCaprio starring as Belfort. The movie marks Scorsese and DiCaprio’s fifth collaboration since Gangs of New York in 2002 and went on to receive five Academy Award nominations, including a Best Adapted Screenplay nod for Winter.
If you thought In Bruges’ 126 ‘f*cks’ was impressive, then The Wolf of Wall Street’s 569 ‘f*cks’ (and other such f*ck-related derivatives) will blow you away. Apparently, that’s the most uses of the word in a non-pornographic, non-documentary film in cinema history.