Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio to Re-Team on‘Wolf of Wall Street'

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will collaborate for the fifth time onThe Wolf of Wall Street, a project the two attempted before and later becameLeo’s possible reunionwith Ridley Scott.

Vulturelearned last week the project left Warner Bros and secured independent financing to possibly shoot by June 2012. The potential film keeps Scorsese working with“Boardwalk Empire” producer Terence Winter, who wrote the script circa 2008, after the legendary filmmaker shot the HBO pilot and executive produced the series.

It also puts Scorsese back in his wheelhouse of crime and corruption, centered on the meteoric success of Jordan Belfort, a former white collar criminal in the 9′0s who turned his own life of stock market manipulation into a bestselling memoir. In a sort ofCasinomeetsBoiler Room, the book (and, subsequently, the script) tells the story of a hungry broker scratching his way from the bottom selling penny stocks to million-dollar suites loaded with high-priced hookers, drugs, and stacks of under-the-table earnings.

However, while Scorsese is completing post-production work on his 3D family filmHugo Cabret(now scheduled for November 23), he will not move immediately into the financial drama. According to thePlaylist, Scorsese’s next film isSilence, a drama based on the Shusaku Endo novel about two 17th century Jesuit priests who face violence and persecution while traveling to Japan to spread the gospel of Christianity. Daniel Day-Lewis,Benicio del Toro, andGael Garcia Bernalwere attached to star in a previous try, one of many false starts since 1998.

Scorsese also hasThe Irishmanlined up with hisothermuse attached, Robert De Niro, and potentiallyJoe Pesci and Al Pacino. Let’s hope he finds the time to make all three.

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