20 Things You Didn't Know About Shutter Island

7. It Was Shot Before The Wolf Of Wall Street Due To Financing Issues

Back in 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio won the bidding rights to the Jordan Belfort memoir The Wolf of Wall Street, and quickly invited Scorsese to come aboard as director.

Scorsese spent five months working on the film's script shortly thereafter, but when Warner Bros. continually stalled the start of production amid budgetary concerns, a fed up Scorsese bailed and moved onto Shutter Island instead, with DiCaprio in tow of course.

This kickstarted a healthy relationship with Paramount, who then distributed Shutter Island, Scorsese's follow-up Hugo and, yes, the eventual 2013 release of The Wolf of Wall Street, as well as his 2016 epic drama Silence.