MUMBAI: Leonardo DiCaprio will play a con man in his next The Wolf of Wall Street. The film will be an adaptation of real life white collar criminal Jordan Belfort`s memoir of the same name, it is understood.

Belfort spent years in the 80`s and early 90`s as a Wall Street trader, racking up both millions of dollars and a serious drug addiction, before a 1994 conviction for shady trading practices that lost clients hundreds of millions.

While Martin Scorcese was said to be directing the film, when it was announced in February last, but as of now, no filmmaker has committed to helm the film.

DiCaprio will also soon star as another millionaire, Jay Gatsby in the literary classic The Great Gatsby.