Caffeinated Clint
“Wall Street” sequel gets the greenlight!
I feel like taking [another] swig after getting wind of this news. This is just great news. Mightn’t trade careers after all (that pole dancing thing looked fun; much funner than some of the shit that’s been unspooled on the creamy screens in recent years – I’m still reeling over the fact that turds like “Wild Hogs” and “Night at the Museum” are ruling cinema!). Puts my faith back in Hollywood when I hear announcements like this one:
Michael Douglas is officially onboard the previously mooted “Wall Street” sequel, titled “Money Never Sleeps”.
Edward Pressman, the producer of the original film confirmed that a deal was made last week with 20th Century Fox to produce the film.
How great is that? Douglas reprising one of his most memorable characters in one of the 80s most memorable movies.
Granted, the film could very well be rubbish…. But I don’t think so. Oliver Stone’s involved (or was involved, early on). Douglas will be raring to bite into Gecko again. It’s unlikely we’ll have the next “Be Cool” or “Queen of the Damned” – two highly anticipated but god-awful sequels – on our hands.
Stone will not direct the sequel, although the producer said that Pressman and Douglas and their new writer, Stephen Schiff (“True Crime”), pressed him to do so for months. Schiff, who expects to deliver a script later this year, said the Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) character was likely to be missing in this one.
The sequel will see Gordon Gecko (Douglas) being released from jail and then resuming his machinations on a global scale in the hedge-fund era.
A restyled Gekko, Pressman predicted, might start setting trends all over again.
“If you weren’t wearing suspenders before ‘Wall Street,’ you were certainly wearing them after,” he said. As for moral development, don’t expect too much from a villain who taught us that lunch is for wimps, and who bragged: “I create nothing. I own.”
“I don’t think he’s much different,” Mr. Douglas said. “He’s just had more time to think about what to do.”
Now if only Douglas and FOX can ink a deal to do another “Romancing the Stone” together, too, I’ll be a blissful disparager.
