“Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort is teaming up with “Hercules” director Brett Ratner and Australian billionaire James Packer to produce a “Mad Men”-style TV show about the excess of Wall Street in the 1980s.
After the wild success of the Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, based on Belfort’s memoirs, Belfort is teaming up with Ratner, Packer and Wall Street financier Steven Mnuchin’s production company, RatPac Entertainment.
While Belfort is famed for defrauding more than 1,500 investors during his finance career, RatPac has established itself as a solid source of movie financing with a $300 million co-finance deal with Warner Bros.
Belfort, who has been working on a motivational speaking tour, recently told the Weekend Australian that he came up with the show because people are still fascinated by the 1980s Wall Street bull market.
“The idea was to come up with a show about that period with really interesting characters, and so my manager pitched the idea to Brett Ratner, who fell in love with it.”
Belfort, who is still being pursued by the government to pay more restitution to his victims, added he will co-write the series.