Jordan Belfort

I get a call from Leo's manager, Rick Yorn, saying, dude, we're greenlighting the movie.

We're going to go.

We're looking for South State.

I'm like, what?

It never happened.

When someone options a movie, it's a very slim chance it ever gets made.

It usually doesn't get made.

It goes on forever, right?

But Leo loved the role, and I loved it.

The whole thing worked out, and then the writer's strike hits.

the 2007 writer's strike and the movie and it's not the script is not ready needs and they all won't put their pen down leo and marty go off and do shutter island because it was ready yeah and the window closed and and one thing about marty who is the most one of the most talented directors in the world amazing but he moved slowly

When he's with a picture, he's with it for years.

It's very slow.

So now it became the brutal wait for Marty to be ready again.

And like Leo's easy because he does a movie, he's next, next.

And so we're trying to get it done.

And we just, the stars could not get aligned and on and on it goes.

And then 2008, the financial crisis hits, right?

And I can't sell another book because no one's buying anything.

I'm completely broke again.