'The Wolf of Wall Street' Book to Movie Alert

Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir The Wolf of Wall Street is being turned into a movie directed by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, Shelf Awareness reports.  Scorsese and DiCaprio have teamed up on a number of films in the past, including Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and Shutter Island, and now look forward to telling the story of the man who describes himself as a "stock market multimillionare at 26 [and] federal convict at 36" who "barely survived [his] rise and fall as an American entrepreneurial icon."  Terence Winter, the executive producer of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, is the scriptwriter.  Beat the rush to the library - check out this book before the movie version hits theaters!

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