Leonardo DiCaprio to play Wall Street con-man

Los Angeles: Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio will play a high flying con man in his next, `The Wolf of Wall Street`.

The film will be an adaptation of real life white collar criminal Jordan Belfort`s memoir of the same name, said The Hollywood Reporter. Belfort spent years in the 80`s and early 90`s as a Wall Street trader, racking up both millions of dollars and a serious drug addiction, before a 1994 conviction for shady trading practices that lost clients hundreds of millions. When the film was announced in February, Martin Scorcese, DiCaprio`s longtime collaborator, was attached to direct, but as of now, no filmmaker has committed to getting behind the camera. DiCaprio will also soon star as another millionaire, Jay Gatsby in a lavish retelling of the literary classic `The Great Gatsby`. He`ll be joined by Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire and Isla Fisher, among others. PTI