Leonardo diCaprio, Jonah Hill Headline ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’; Director Martin Scorsese Rushes For Awards Season Release

Leonardo diCaprio will star in "Wolf Of Wall Street" his fifth collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. The film co-stars Jonah Hill and will be a last-minute awards candidate.

Martin Scorsese is an institution in the film industry and he wants the film to compete for this year's awards. He and editor Thelma Schoonmakerare working to get the film in theaters by December 25th.

The movie is a social commentary of sorts. Although there will be plenty of dark, debauched comedy in The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese plans to keep his eye on the larger thematic issues regarding our financial systems:  "I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism-where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs-is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema."

Leonardo diCaprio is all praises for his comedic co-star: "Jonah Hill is probably one of the greatest improvisers I've ever worked with. He's completely fearless standing in front of a group of people, coming up with incredibly spontaneous, brilliant dialogue. There were multiple occasions when the scene became something absolutely different just because he would bring up some hilarious subject, and we would just riff on it until the film canister ran out, and Marty would let us do it all over again from a different angle, and we'd keep riffing."

For Hill's part, nothing can compare to the experience of working on this movie:

"I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will ever compare to it, except for maybe having kids one day or something."