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UPDATE: Nikki Finke is now reporting that Javier Bardem is simply who some want to play the role in the film. He has not signed on nor even met with Oliver Stone.
Michael Douglas may have a new co-star for for Oliver Stone's economic crisis indictment "Wall Street 2." In addition to young "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" hero Shia LaBeouf, the sequel to Stone's 1987 film may now have "No Country for Old Men" villain Javier Bardem aboard as well. The story begins in June 2008, exploring the hedge fund disasters and federal bailouts that followed. This is no remake though; "Wall Street 2" will be a direct sequel, with Douglas stepping back into his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko.
Bardem will play the antagonist in "Wall Street 2," claiming knowledge that LaBeouf's character will make a risky deal with Gekko to take him down amid the chaotic events that rocked the finance industry last year, according to a report on Deadline Hollywood. The film may begin filming as soon as this August, with a release date currently set for February 2010. Read more...
Back in February, Oliver Stone told MTV News that he would not be coming to save “Wall Street 2,” the sequel to his Zeitgeist-defining drama about corporate greed in the 1980s. Fox had fast-tracked the movie late last year as the economic downturn became severe.
“I dropped out,” he said. “I didn’t want to do another ‘Wall Street’ movie. I think everything I had to stay came through.”
Well, something changed in the last couple months, because Stone has now signed on to direct the picture. Michael Douglas is likely to reprise his role as merciless corporate raider Gordon Gekko and Variety is reporting that Shia LaBeouf is in negotiations to join the film as well. Read more...
One man who will not be coming to save “Wall Street” is Oliver Stone. Last fall, as the economic situation went from bad to straight up scary, Fox announced it was fast-tracking development of a sequel to the director’s 1987 classic about ruthless businessmen in shiny suits. Now, in an exclusive interview with MTV News, Stone revealed he will have nothing to do with the project.
“I dropped out,” he said. “I didn’t want to do another ‘Wall Street’ movie. I think everything I had to stay came through.”
There was a time, however, when he and fellow scriptwriter Stanley Weiser discussed picking up the story again. “We invested this a while ago,” Stone said, “but we couldn’t come up with the right way to go about it. I think there’s an interesting movie to be made in there. I’m just not interested because it’s so complex now. I don’t think people can understand security derivatives. But these types of people [on Wall Street] -- essentially it’s the same mentality.” Read more...
Unless you live under a rock or have a Swiss bank account, you're probably freaking out about the economy like the rest of the world. So with the country's focus on Wall Street, it probably isn't a huge surprise to learn that Fox is continuing to develop a sequel to the 1987 film "Wall Street," now picking up an extra writer on the project.
Titled "Money Never Sleeps," according to The Hollywood Reporter the film's plotline is being kept under tight wraps, but the script is being penned by Allan Loeb. And yes, it will feature the character of Gordon Gekko, who was made infamous by a slick-haired Michael Douglas. Reportedly, Douglas is interested in playing the character again, but will decide whether to return when he sees the script. Read more...
