Art of Cinema on Instagram: "Ridley Scott was considered to direct The Wolf of Wall Street, with Brad Pitt as the lead. Both Pitt's and Leonardo DiCaprio's production companies engaged in a bidding war over the rights to adapt Belfort's memoir, but DiCaprio ultimately succeeded and starred in the film directed by Scorsese. Jordan Belfort supported the film's depiction of excess. His one objection was the film's implication that Stratton Oakmont never did any serious work. Belfort argued that the