Wall Street 2 Set Photos: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf…
The Daily Mail has just posted the first photos of Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf and Frank Langella on the set of “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.” The film will also star Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Ferlito and Charlie Sheen. Oliver Stone is directing.
Michael Douglas, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
Set in New York City, the film takes place 20 years after the original, revolving around the 2008 stock market crash. The film’s plot mainly centers around Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) acting as a more of an anti-hero rather than a villain, and follows his attempts to help Wall Street before its soon-to-be stock market crash, and to repair his relationship with his daughter Winnie (Mulligan); though all of his attempts are unsuccessful.
While Gekko is trying to fix his relationship with Winnie, Jake “Jacob”’s (LaBeouf), mentor Lewis (Langella) unexpectedly dies, Jacob blames Bretton (Brolin), and soon after makes a deal with Gekko; Gekko helps Jacob get revenge on Bretton, and Jacob helps Gekko repair his relationship with Winnie, who is Jacob’s fiancee.
Charlie Sheen Joins “Wall Street 2″
“Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” shooting begins this week in New York, 23 years after its predecessor – Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street.”
“I thought it was a bubble that was over,” Mr. Stone said of the 1980s. “I thought those days were going to come to an end. The excess.”
The story finds Gordon Gekko finishing his prison sentence and attempting to reconcile with his estranged daughter. “Wall Street” could be a movie about second chances.
“When Gekko (Douglas) comes out of prison in the beginning of this movie, he essentially has to redefine himself, redefine his character,” Stone said of the sequel’s story. “He’s looking for that second chance.”
Oliver Stone has just confirmed to NY Times that Charlie Sheen, who played the central role of Bud Fox, a young trader, in the original, will make a cameo in his upcoming “Wall Street” sequel.
Susan Sarandon To Star In Wall Street 2
Susan Sarandon will probably star in “Wall Street 2.”
Sarandon is negotiating to join “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” for 20th Century Fox.
She joins Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Frank Langella and Carey Mulligan in the sequel to the 1987 “Wall Street” film. Josh Brolin is currently in talks to star in the film as well.
Sarandon will play the mother of a young Wall Street trader (Shia LaBeouf) who falls under the seductive influence of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas).
Carey Mulligan’s character is romantically linked to LaBeouf’s, a young Wall Street broker on his way up. Oscar nominated Langella (”Frost/Nixon”) will play Lewis Zabel, a mentor to Shia LaBeouf’s character.
Oliver Stone will direct from the script written by Allan Loeb.
The story reportedly finds Gekko finishing his prison sentence and attempting to reconcile with his estranged daughter, who is dating LaBeouf’s character.
Shooting begins next month in New York.
Frank Langella To Star In “Wall Street 2″
Frank Langella has been added to the cast of Oliver Stone’s 1987’s “Wall Street” sequel – “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.”
Shia LaBeouf stars with Michael Douglas, who’ll reprise his Best Actor Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko role 21 years later. Josh Brolin is currently in talks to star in the film as well.
Oscar nominated Langella (”Frost/Nixon”) will play Lewis Zabel, a mentor to Shia LaBeouf’s character, a young Wall Street broker.
Allan Loeb (”21,” “Things We Lost In The Fire”) has scripted the project. The story reportedly finds Gekko finishing his prison sentence and attempting to reconcile with his estranged daughter, who is dating LaBeouf’s character.
Frank Langella will next be seen starring with Cameron Diaz and James Marsden in Richard Kelly-directed thriller “The Box” and Andrew Jarecki’s “All Good Things” with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.
“Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” is supposed to start shooting this week and is scheduled to be released in early 2010.
Josh Brolin To Join Douglas In “Wall Street 2″?
Josh Brolin will probably reteam with Oliver Stone to star as the villain in the sequel to 1987’s “Wall Street”
Javier Bardem was originally lined up for the role, but withdrew from the project earlier this month.
The film will be Brolin’s second movie with Stone following their success with George W. Bush biopic “W.” last year.
Stone’s follow-up to the classic 1987 financial drama will see Brolin face off against Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko and Shia LaBeouf’s young stockbroker.
Michael Douglas will reprise his Best Actor Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko 21 year later.
Allan Loeb (”21,” “Things We Lost In The Fire”) has scripted the project under the title “Money Never Sleeps.” The story reportedly finds Gekko finishing his prison sentence and attempting to reconcile with his estranged daughter, who is dating LaBeouf’s character.
The movie is scheduled for release in February 2010.
Oliver Stone Signs For Wall Street 2, Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf In Talks To Star
It has been almost two years since 20th Century Fox announced a sequel to Oliver Stone’s 1987 drama “Wall Street.”
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Oliver Stone is set to direct “Wall Street 2“. Michael Douglas has said that he is in “serious discussions” to reprise his role as Gordon Gekko, for which he won an Oscar in 1988. On top of all this, Shia LaBeouf is in talks for the sequel according to Variety.
As previously reported, Allan Loeb, writer of 21, wrote the most recent screenplay, which will follow Gordon Gekko’s character, who has just been released from prison after serving a 14-year sentence in jail for insider trading and securities fraud. Gekko embarks on the financial lecture circuit, after releasing a book called “Moral Hazzard,” and meets a young Wall Street hot shot, Jacob L. Moore. Moore’s mentor has just committed suicide, after his former company, KZI was destroyed. A trader named Brenton Woods is behind the downfall of the company, and Moore seeks out the help of Gekko to get revenge. But in return for Gekko’s help, Moore must reunite Gekko with his estranged daughter, who he is engaged to.
Oliver Stone most recently directed the biopic “W.” and before that helmed the Sept. 11 disaster drama “World Trade Center.”
Oliver Stone Plans Documentary on Hugo Chavez
After making a biopic on George W. Bush, Oliver Stone is planning to helm a documentary on Venezuela’s controversial President Hugo Chavez.
The 62-year-old director has already spent six months with Chavez, and was even with him during the dramatic rescue of the FARC hostages from Columbia in February (that’s not the focus of this film, but there are two already being planned on that topic). The documentary will focus on Chavez’s “South American revolution” and the opposition to his leadership in Venezuela and abroad.
Stone’s previous docs include Comandante, about Cuban President Fidel Castro, and Persona Non Grata, which began as a project about Yasser Arafat but eventually became a wider-reaching primer on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, after interviewing the now-dead Arafat proved an impossible task.
Stone also confirmed that he is working on another documentary, but denied reports that the subject is Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmandinejad.
W. – Dub – Ya UK poster
Check out the UK version of poster for Dub-Ya – W.
“W.” Movie Reviews
More questions than answers are brought up with Oliver Stone’s W., and not just in terms of the movie’s content, but its creation as well.
Why make a movie about George W. Bush and release it only three weeks prior to the election escorting him out of the White House? That’s the first one that comes to mind, but as the movie plays out you quickly realize there doesn’t seem to be an agenda of any kind, at least not an obvious one, which only reinforces the question. Stone, a liberal more than willing to say his share when asked, treats the subject matter extremely honestly, so honest actually that it feels abridged and lacking guts. Of course, this is coming from someone that has been paying attention over the past eight years, others may be a bit for susceptible…read more [RopeOfSilicon]
There’s no rolling sense of pace holding the film together, instead “W.” aims for an episodic approach to hunt a deeper understanding of what demons propelled Bush from a spoiled young man to the presidency. It’s one hell of a story, yet Stone seems afraid to get his hands dirty. In 1995’s “Nixon,” the director found a particular respectful wavelength to approach a poisonous regime, while keeping a dense psychological framework alive even through the most iconic historical situations. “W.” doesn’t share that same passion. Stone shuffles away from his bag of visual tricks to shoot the picture with startling straightforwardness, eschewing camera pizzazz and editing subtext to stay close to Bush, abandoning all artistic flourishes. It creates an interesting tension at first, especially with so much dead, eerily silent (a minimal amount of music is used for the picture) space allowed for Brolin to deliver career-best work as Bush, but the inertia soon catches up with the film…read more [Collider] Continue Reading…
Wall Street Sequel is Moving Forward
Fox has confirmed it is in the early stages of development on a sequel to 1987’s Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street.”
Allan Loeb (Things We Lost in the Fire, 21), is writing the screenplay for the sequel and no word yet if Oliver Stone’s going to be involved but Michael Douglas is definitely interested in reprising the character but will make his decision of whether to return based on the script. Ed Pressman has signed up to produce.
According to Variety, the modern-day story will again center on Gordon Gekko, who has recently been sprung from prison and re-emerges into a much more tumultuous financial world than the one he once lorded over. The Bud Fox character, played by Charlie Sheen in the original, will not appear in the latest incarnation.
