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Jean Dujardin Joining Leonardo DiCaprio In Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street

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Earlier this year, they were Academy Awards 'rivals." Now The Artist's Oscar-winning charmer Jean Dujardin and Hugo helmer Martin Scorsese are looking to collaborate on the director’s upcoming project, The Wolf of Wall Street.

It makes sense. Scorsese likely adored Dujardin and Michel Hazanavicius' ode to Hollywood’s Golden Age, and probably would have embraced The Artist publicly if it weren't competing against Scorsese’s own cinematic tribute in Hugo for Oscar’s top prize. But the effervescent and effusive Dujardin has several tools in his bag, and could put them to good use in Scorsese’s stocks-and-bonds drama. Variety says the French thespian is in negotiations to join Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in the based-on-a-true-story account of Wall Street trader Jordan Belfort, who plugged into the high stakes world of Manhattan finances and brought with this newfound passion a serious desire to party. Hard.

The trade says Dujardin would play Jean-Jacques Handali, a "suave Swiss banker involved in laundering illicit funds for the protag's firm." In addition to Dujardin, Scorsese is trying to button down Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler as the FBI agent dedicated to bringing Belfort (DiCaprio) to justice.

We stopped questioning Scorsese and DiCaprio after Gangs of New York. Whatever they want to try together, we’re on board for it. Adding Dujardin is an unexpected twist, but it’s evident the man knows how to act, and this part seems tailored to his strengths. Before Wolf, he’ll pop up in The Weinstein Company's comedy The Players, while Variety says he’s also attached to join Tim Roth in the spy thriller Mobius.
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Jonah Hill brings down my otherwise raging boner for this project. Love me some Marty and Leo collabs.
 
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Solo said:
He's not what he once was, not by a long shot, but I still think he's a more than competent director-fire-hire.
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I don't think it's fair to call Scorsese a director for hire. I mean, his last project was Hugo.

He's not what he once was, but he isn't a director for hire.
 
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Scullibundo said:
I don't think it's fair to call Scorsese a director for hire. I mean, his last project was Hugo.

He's not what he once was, but he isn't a director for hire.
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The Aviator
The Departed
Shutter Island
Wolf of Wall Street

None of these are passion projects, and that's four of his last five features.
 
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There's a big difference between being a director for hire and not shooting a passion project.

Aliens wasn't a passion project for Cameron, yet I wouldn't say the film reflects him as a director for hire.

Director for hire equates to somebody doing a job that doesn't really reflect their sensibilities at all and so could be replaced by pretty much any other competent director without the film missing a beat.

I don't feel that is the case with The Aviator or Shutter Island at all. Especially not the flashback sequences.

The Aviator very much felt like a passion project for Scorsese in fact. Leo brought him the story sure, but Scorsese had always wanted to do a golden age Hollywood film.
 
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I agree with Sculli, having watched The Aviator again recently it totally seems like Scorcese was firing on all cylinders with that one.
 
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Michael Mann was going to direct The Aviator though. Scorsese came on at the 11th hour. He did an amazing job (and it freed Mann up to do Collateral, which also was amazing, so it worked out for the best), but he was a hired gun.
 
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LOL he didn't come on at the 11th hour at all. You act like Mann had already gone through pre-production, cameras were about to roll and then Scorsese was put in the directors chair.

Scorsese had a very, very long process of research with DiCaprio when they wanted Logan to punch up the script, followed by an extensive period of pre-production. The entire technicolor look of the film is something that wouldn't have come from anybody else except Scorsese.

The film ranks among Scorsese's Top 5 for me and so I can only shake my head when you say he was a director for hire on the film.
 
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Solo said:
Michael Mann was going to direct The Aviator though. Scorsese came on at the 11th hour. He did an amazing job (and it freed Mann up to do Collateral, which also was amazing, so it worked out for the best), but he was a hired gun.
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He turned it into an amazing film that was full on 100% Scorsese though. Nobody could have directed that film and had it turn out the same way. It was Scorsese through and through. That by definition is completely the opposite of a director for hire.
 
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Scullibundo said:
LOL he didn't come on at the 11th hour at all. You act like Mann had already gone through pre-production, cameras were about to roll and then Scorsese was put in the directors chair.

Scorsese had a very, very long process of research with DiCaprio when they wanted Logan to punch up the script, followed by an extensive period of pre-production. The entire technicolor look of the film is something that wouldn't have come from anybody else except Scorsese.

The film ranks among Scorsese's Top 5 for me and so I can only shake my head when you say he was a director for hire on the film.
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It was reading this:

For the first 50 minutes of the film, scenes appear in shades of only red and cyan blue; green objects are rendered as blue. This was done, according to Scorsese, to emulate the look of early bipack color movies, in particular the Multicolor process, which Hughes himself owned, emulating the available technology of the era. Similarly, many of the scenes depicting events occurring after 1935 are treated to emulate the saturated appearance of three-strip Technicolor. Other scenes were stock footage colorized and incorporated into the film. The color effects were created by Legend Films.
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that made me go "this is some Scorcese-ass Scorcese shit"

Not that he's the only one who would think to do something like that, but it just screams "history of cinema!" like Scorcese's films sometimes do.
 
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Also calling him a director for hire when he last movie was Hugo of all things is insane. That is easily one of the clearest examples of a passion project that he has done.
 
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Probably sacrilegious to say, but Goodfellas aside, I like 21st century Scorsese more. I shrug at these "director for hire" comments.
 
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jett said:
Probably sacrilegious to say, but Goodfellas aside, I like 21st century Scorsese more. I shrug at these "director for hire" comments.
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I love 21st Century Scorsese, but it's hard to say he compares to the man that gave us Taxi Driver. So yeah, it is pretty sacrilegious to say. :)
 
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Solo said:
Jonah Hill brings down my otherwise raging boner for this project. Love me some Marty and Leo collabs.
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Indeed. Kyle Chandler, Leo and Scorsese sounds great. Jonah Hill's awful though.

And I don't think Scorsese's what he once was at all. But he still makes enjoyable stuff. Liking 21st Century Scorsese more? You're crazy, jett.
 
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What can I say, Goodfellas is my favorite Scorsese movie but I love The Departed, The Aviator and Hugo. Like them more than the likes of Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, for several different reasons. Mean Streets I flat out don't like, I even fell asleep somewhere in the middle of the movie. If that makes me crazy so be it.
 
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How you feel about Mean Streets is what I feel about Aviator. I appreciate the old hollywood thing he was trying to accomplish and Leo was great but I just can't really enjoy that film.

And Hugo is give or take. I love Departed though. Yeah sure it's a remake but it's his best film since Bringing Out the Dead.
 
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I thought I heard he was going to do something set in japan?
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Silence. He's already done an extensive amount of pre-production on it and it looks to be his next film. Apparently he's shooting it in 3D as well, which is great after Hugo.

I wonder if he'll shoot Wolf of Wall Street in 3D. Somehow I don't see it happening, but it's always a possibility with Scorsese now.
 
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jett said:
What can I say, Goodfellas is my favorite Scorsese movie but I love The Departed, The Aviator and Hugo. Like them more than the likes of Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, for several different reasons. Mean Streets I flat out don't like, I even fell asleep somewhere in the middle of the movie. If that makes me crazy so be it.
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Scorsese has dabbled in different genres in recent times than "golde age" scorsese who did gritty realistic films involving tough guys.

I see where you are getting at. Not a lot of directors get this versatile so late in their career.
 
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