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STORY: ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Avoids NC-17 After Sex Cuts If I could fill a conference room with assistants from CAA, would you come in and do that for me?” And he said, “Yeah.” So I got a bunch of young agents and assistants and … I said: “God, I would love to see you do that. He used to give these incredible motivational speeches to his sales team twice a day, once in the morning, once in the afternoon. He was incredibly boyish and naturally charming. I met with Jordan and downloaded as much information as I could. Would it be OK if I wrote it in that style?” And everybody was on board with that. And I didn’t want to lose that, so I broached the subject of voiceover, and said, “It feels like Goodfellas and Casino. Jordan is so funny, talking about people, how he goofed on people. Stylistically, some of the early conversations were. Jordan is absolutely forthcoming to the point where you can’t believe some of the things he’s admitting. TERENCE WINTER: We were all in agreement that we wanted to tell the truest version of this story and not the sanitized version. What were the challenges of adapting this story? , over the years, Leo’s been talking to me about it. And we said, “Look, we want to do something together,” so we wound up doing Shutter Island. In a studio situation, this kind of picture would have been very difficult and wouldn’t be worth making. MARTIN SCORSESE: There was resistance based on the material. We don’t want to limit or censor anything.” Ultimately, that was attractive to Marty getting back on board because I had gone down the road looking for other filmmakers, but I didn’t think there was anybody that could quite capture the dark, sadistic humor in Terry’s screenplay. We had one opportunity to finance it, and then many, many years down the line, we found the right financiers, and Red Granite basically said to us: “Here’s the budget. LEONARDO DICAPRIO: You know, it’s a hard R rating. Why was it so hard to get this film off the ground? PHOTOS: Scorsese, DiCaprio Spill Candid Stories About ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ “Films exploring darker nature are the most profound,” says DiCaprio, who joined Scorsese, Hill, screenwriter Terence Winterand THR on Nov.
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Says Paramount chairman Brad Grey, “There were really not major cuts in this movie there were trims.” Despite the trims (which included the removal of many f-s and the tightening of an airplane orgy scene), all those connected to Wolf say it remains the story they wanted to tell. 25 and “multiple rounds” of cuts with the MPAA (in the words of Red Granite vice chairman Joey McFarland) to qualify for an R rating. That was just the beginning of the film’s rollicking ride - which included a lawsuit demanding credit from executive producer Alexandra Milchan a battering by Hurricane Sandy (the movie had to shut down for several days) a race against time as Scorsese cut the film from four-hours-plus to just under three, delaying its release until Dec.
