‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Malaysian Money Laundering Scandal Gets Doc Treatment (Exclusive)
(Hollywood Reporter) – Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Lerner is producing ‘The Master and His Wolf,’ which he hopes will join the dots between ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ producers Red Granite Pictures and a billion-dollar scandal now threatening to bring down the Malaysian government.
The unfolding scandal surrounding the financing of The Wolf of Wall Street — which allegedly links corruption and money laundering at the highest levels of the Malaysian government to the company behind the hit film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a flamboyant criminal stockbroker — is getting the documentary treatment.
Mike Lerner, the Oscar-nominated British producer behind Hell and Back Again, The Square and Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, is producing the doc, which purports to connect the dots between Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, a sovereign wealth fund set up to spur economic development, notorious celebrity-strewn parties in Cannes and Las Vegas, upstart Los Angeles banner Red Granite Pictures (co-founded by Razak’s stepson Riza Aziz) and the $100 million it found to finance Wolf of Wall Street in 2012.
