15 Incredibly Late Sequels That Took Decades To Arrive

6. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - 23 Years

The Previous Film: Wall Street (1987) No film is more out-and-out eighties than Wall Street. From its brick mobiles and orange-hued cityscapes to Charlie Sheen in a serious role, Oliver Stone's follow up to Platoon had Michael Douglas in his career-defining role. Gordon Gekko and his "greed is good" ideology showed just how distant bankers are from the man on the street. Despite the ending, it had the odd effect of making people want to go into finance. The Late Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) "I once said "Greed is good". Now it seems it's legal." Attempting to explore the stock market crash with a smarter-than-everyone Gekko, Money Never Sleeps recast the original's big bad as a sympathetic, semi-reformed man. The plot is just as twisty as before, but this time around less effort is made to explain it to the audience. Get that CFQ ready. Was It Worth The Wait? Money Never Sleeps really disrespects the original, disregarding the ending and having Sheen's Bud Fox pop up in an out-of-character cameo, but the bigger problem is that it lacks the first film's relevance. Gekko is such a quintessential eighties man that outside of that decade he feels like a caricature.