Humm, I wonder what kinda of hair product he uses...
Just in time to keep our FBFs from completely losing faith in Wall Street Hollywood has decided to re-inspire them. Turns out our Inside Trader and co. will shortly have new fodder for their fairytale endings. Personally we’re hoping the movie will hire a great costume designer and breath a little life into the blue button down, black square toe shoe, big watch uniform we’ve become kinda (/really really) sick of. As reported on hollywoodreporter.com:
Wall Street’s all the rage again — literally. And Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas have decided they have more to say about it.
Stone has just closed a deal with Fox to direct the follow-up to “Wall Street,” now tentatively called “Wall Street 2,” with Douglas starring. This would provide an unusual amount of continuity since Stone directed and co-wrote, with Stanley Weiser, the original 1987 exploration of the inner workings of the finance sector and its complicated relationship with greed.
The plot line for the new “Wall Street” iteration has not been divulged, but it will pick up with corporate raider Gordon Gekko, the character for which Douglas won a best actor Oscar more than 20 years ago. Gekko’s larger-than-life presence will once again loom over a younger upstart looking to navigate the shark-tank world of today’s Wall Street.
Shia LaBeouf is in talks with the studio to take on the younger role. Stone and Co. hope to begin production over the summer.
Allan Loeb (”21,” “The Baster”) was hired to rewrite the long-developing project in the fall and has apparently turned in a script strong enough to corral Stone, who reportedly was very cool to the idea of a sequel. Ed Pressman, who produced the original film, is producing the follow-up as well.
The CAA-repped Stone most recently directed the biopic “W.,” and before that helmed the Sept. 11 disaster drama “World Trade Center,” which itself was a kind of tragic bookend to “Wall Street’s” greed-is-good mantra. The new “Wall Street” project, with its up-to-the-minute placement in the context of the current global financial mess, should provide Stone with an ample palette for his typically provocative cultural commentary.
**thanks for forwarding the link DABA Girl K.C.
