Apr.29 2009

“Greed is Good.” Director Oliver Stone Set To Make Wall Street 2

The movie that defined corporate greed in the 1980s, providing a window into a world of luxury, power and cutthroat betrayal has a sequel in the works. With a lack of creativity and originality in Hollywood these days, remakes and sequels are making up a significant portion of our movie-going appetite, so this is no surprise. “Controversial” filmmaker Oliver Stone (JFK, Natural Born Killers) wrote and directed Wall Street, which was nominated for several Oscars in 1987. Michael Douglas of course took home the Best Actor statue.

Entertainment Weekly has the word that the long-discussed sequel is well on its way, 22 years in the making. Michael Douglas is set to reprise his role as corporate kingpin Gordon Gekko. Transformers hot shot Shia LaBeouf is in talks to play a young trader in the sequel, which is set 20 years after the first installment. It’s undeniably fitting timing considering the recent events on Wall Street and its integral involvement in the downfall of the economy.

Douglas feels that its needed. “I think it’s time to take another hard look at trading and the economy and what went wrong in the last few years,” he said. “Everybody’s talking about the economy and people are scrutinizing it. Whenever I mention Wall Street 2, everybody goes, ‘Yeah. Interesting. I’d see that.’” BTW, I pray to God that Wall Street 2 is not the title of this film. Being a film of such serious nature and magnitude, a simple “2″ is really weak and lame.

So needless to say it’ll be fascinating to see how Stone’s personal opinions regarding the country’s current political state affects the outcome script. I’m sure Stone will enlist the counsel of real traders and brokers who lived the life over the past few years, getting some true stories of what actually happened to paint a more accurate picture. Maybe Gekko will now have moved up to the head of AIG and LaBeouf will be an intern being shown the ropes. Fox wants to get the ball rolling on this ASAP with shooting to begin as early as this summer. Stay tuned to The Mash for updates.

What Do You Think? Discuss.

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http://intensedebate.com/people/MovieMike MovieMike

Awesome!!! i just saw wall street for the first time 2 days ago actually. It was a great movie. I love how this is working out, i see all of these classic movies now and sequels are in the works when other people had to wait forever. for Boondocks Saints now Wall Street!
http://intensedebate.com/people/Matt_Damon Matt_Damon

Yea perfect timing for this re-make considering everyone is pointing their fingers at wall street for the mess were currently in. I hope Stone doesn't play this PC and make's a wicked gritty film about the what it's really like to be a trader.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Shawshank Shawshank

Hmm considering how good the first Wall Street was I'm actually excited for this.
Matt I

Normally i decry sequels of this nature that just get made because Hollywood is running out of original ideas but i'm actually excited about this one. As long as they don't call it "Step up 2 the Wall Street" or some dumb shit like that, this could be a phenomenal movie that looks into the high stakes trading game going on between a select few power brokers using Americas money.
http://themoviemash.com/2010/01/first-glance-new-pics-of-wall-street-money-never-sleeps/ First Glance: New Pics of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps :: THE MOVIE MASH

[...] We reported way back in April on the announcement and casting of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. USA Today has now released the first hi-res still images of the film, which is currently in post-production. The sequel takes place 20 years after the original with Michael Douglas returning to his iconic role as the then villainous Gordon Gekko, who famously coined the phrase, “Greed is good.” Stone, who wrote and directed the original, passed on the script for WS2 several times, but inevitably changed his mind after the economic collapse of 2008. “I guess the crash, which happened in the meantime, made it more interesting,” Stone said.Starring along Douglas is Shia LaBeouf as a hot-shot/up-and-coming broker who obviously has a lot to learn. The adorable and brilliant Carey Mulligan, fresh off her Golden Globe nom and inevitable Oscar nom, will play Shia’s love interest. Javier Bardem was originally chosen by Stone to play the villain, but due to scheduling conflicts was replaced by his No Country co-star Josh Brolin; which is totally fine by me. Brolin’s character is being described as a “new breed of ruthless investor/banking kingpin.” Check out these new photos from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. [...]