Oliver Stone returns to direct WALL STREET 2 with Douglas & LaBeouf
One thing's for certain, you can't knock Oliver Stone for not being current these days. He moved from World Trade Center, to a movie about the Bushadministration and the former President himself just as he was about to leave office and final judgement be cast upon him and now he's set to revisit world finance, at a scary time in the global economy. The news hit yesterday that Oliver Stone, as I call him America's cinematic conscious, is out to attack hedge funds by making a sequel to Wall Street, the movie that had the slogan "greed is good" when it won a Best Leading Man Oscar for Michael Douglas in 1987. Oh, how Stone will enjoy using a similar tagline today. Variety say Stone, who will be directing his first ever sequel, has joined the project which was actually setup back in 2007 to re-star Michael Douglas from a script written by Lolita (the remake) scribe Stephen Schiff for 20th Century Fox and attracted the attention of Stephen Frears (The Queen). The recent recession outdated Schiff's screenplay and a re-write was ordered from Allan Loeb, who already tackled man's greed towards money with last year's 21 and is actually a licensed stockbroker. Douglas is in talks to return as Gordon Grekko, the scumbag greedy icon who is a great villain to re-visit today. Shia LaBeouf is in talks to co-star, playing a revenge-seeking trader who is mentored by Grekko, whom after a 14 year stretch in prison is helping the young kid in exchange for time being granted with his estranged daughter. Charlie Sheen's idealist Bud Fox, who ratted Grekko out is not in the screenplay. The movie was previously titled Money Never Sleeps when written by Schiff, no word if that title is still in place. Stone was pretty light on giving it all to Bush when we all thought W. would be a full on attack movie. In fact, if anything, Stone showed great sympathy towards the President, will he be so kind to a figure like Grekko?