From Drudge this morning: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS: 'WALL STREET' SEQUEL SLATED IN HOLLYWOOD... DEVELOPING...
Me paying to see this would be like Jenna Jameson paying for sex, whoever she is:eek: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 5, 2007 Filmâs Wall Street Predator to Make a Comeback By MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES, May 4 â Greed is still good. Or so those at 20th Century Fox hope. Even as their boss, Rupert Murdoch, pursued an uninvited takeover bid for Dow Jones this week, Fox movie executives quietly sealed a deal to revive Gordon Gekko, the suspender-loving financial prowler who made grabbing seem good in Oliver Stoneâs 1987 film, âWall Street.â When last seen, the corrupt Gekko, an Oscar-winning role for Michael Douglas, was on the brink of surrendering his white cuffs for handcuffs, having been sold out by his protégé Bud Fox, played by Charlie Sheen. âHe went to jail,â acknowledged Edward R. Pressman, who produced the original movie and reached an agreement with Fox this week to develop a sequel in which Mr. Douglas will resume his machinations on a global scale in the hedge-fund era. Mr. Pressman declined to say more about the plot. But the title, he said, will be âMoney Never Sleeps,â after one of Gekkoâs guiding principles in the first film, written by Stanley Weiser and Mr. Stone. âWall Streetâ was only a modest hit when Fox released it. But it won a passionate following in the financial world, where many found something to love in the predatory Gekko. Speaking by telephone from Bermuda, Mr. Douglas said he wouldnât mind if he never had âone more drunken Wall Street broker come up to me and say, âYouâre the man!â â Mr. Stone will not direct the sequel, although the producer said that Messrs. Pressman and Douglas and their new writer, Stephen Schiff (âTrue Crimeâ), pressed him to do so for months. Mr. Schiff, who expects to deliver a script later this year, said the Bud Fox character was likely to be missing as well. But a restyled Gekko, he predicted, might start setting trends all over again. âIf you werenât wearing suspenders before âWall Street,â you were certainly wearing them after,â he said. As for moral development, donât expect too much from a villain who taught us that lunch is for wimps, and who bragged: âI create nothing. I own.â âI donât think heâs much different,â Mr. Douglas said. âHeâs just had more time to think about what to do.â Home
Good news, if not quite as exciting as Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy (try to say that with a straight face) or even the decades-awaited remake of The Wolf of Wall Street.
Yeah but without Scorsese, I am not sure how any movie can even come close to the orginal.. Mixed emotions, buddy. Like Larry Wildman going off a cliff in my new Maserati!