![]() ![]() When you decide you want to push that envelope and creatively free Marty and Leo, and you show the amount of drug use and language and sex, you have to know what you’re getting into. Certain content is more accepted in certain parts of the world than others. McFarland: The sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Studios can then put those together with their other franchises. We can take a lot of risky things they have sitting on the shelf and get it made. Studios are still distributing these movies, but a lot of the top filmmakers of this era are having to secure financing outside the studio system.Īziz: I don’t see independents like ourselves as competitors to studios. WOLF OF WALL STREET FULL MOVIE MOVIEThis movie is one of many opening this year where you have a prominent filmmaker working with outside financiers. and Leonardo, they didn’t want to stand in his way.Īlso read: ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Reviews: Did DiCaprio and Scorsese Create Another ‘Goodfellas’? I don’t know if they thought we’d be successful in making it, but given the long-term relationship between Warner Bros. When they decide to not make a movie, they don’t want anyone else to be successful with it. and began the long, long process of extracting the script, which was not easy to do. Over the course of about 6 months of negotiations we purchased the underlying rights to both of his books. We went to Jordan Belfort and met him numerous times. McFarland: It was Leonardo’s favorite character he’d never gotten to play. For us, it’s an opportunity.Īnd you convinced Warner Bros. ![]() With that mentality, you have to take risks. We want to do something a little different, but attract talent and work with studios at the same time. McFarland: We want to be extremely artist-friendly. ![]() But I still think there’s a very strong marketplace for adult-oriented drama and comedy. The constant drug use and nudity couldn’t have helped.Īziz: Studios are more comfortable with special effects and blockbusters. I can’t tell you how many times people said I didn’t get it, but now that I’ve see the movie I get it. The real substance of the material went over people’s heads. McFarland: I don’t think a lot of people ‘got it.’ They saw it as another Wall Street movie. Marty and Leo looked at the numbers the studio was putting forth and they were not comfortable with it. The studio wanted to set a very specific ceiling as to how much to spend for Leo and Marty to do justice to the movie. What stalled its progress at Warner Bros.?Īziz: The material was out of the studio’s sweet spot. These are movies with great talent attached and a studio’s attention, but for budgetary reasons, scheduling or content, couldn’t get greenlit. ‘Dumb and Dumber To’ is another example of that. One of our sweet spots is we look at movies that have died in the studio system and not been made for one reason or another. McFarland: This goes back to 2009 when Riza and I decided to join forces and build Red Granite. How did you first get involved with the project? TheWrap: Red Granite fully financed ‘Wolf of Wall Street,” but it didn’t originate with you. TheWrap spoke with the two financiers and producers about finding movies in the studio trash can, whether “Wolf of Wall Street” is a comedy, and Matthew McConaughey‘s similarity to Darth Vader. The movie is tracking to perform well at the box office, and has received strong reviews from most critics. and Leonardo, they didn’t want to stand in his way.”Īlso read: Martin Scorsese on ‘Wolf of Wall Street': I Wanted It Big and FerociousĪs the movie’s Christmas Day debut approaches, Aziz and McFarland’s bet looks like it will pay off. “I don’t know if they thought we’d be successful in making it, but given the long-term relationship between Warner Bros. “When they decide to not make a movie, they don’t want anyone else to be successful with it,” McFarland told TheWrap. Yet Red Granite was willing to take the risk, and convinced Warner Bros. That’s one reason Warner Bros., which had developed a script based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir, killed the project. While the excess makes for one of the year’s most fun movies, it is also a risky business proposition. Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland acquired the rights to “Wolf of Wall Street” knowing they had three strikes against them: drugs, sex and violence. Terence Winter’s script, brought to life by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, featured copious amounts of all three. ![]()
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