Oliver Stone in for Fox's 'Wall Street' follow-up (Grifting Geezers in Heat!!)

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 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.

I'm sure this agitprop piece will push the agenda of gov't takeovers.

Every time I see any Oliver Stone movie (and sometimes even when I’m watching a movie that he had nothing to do with), I am reminded of just how ovverrated this clown is. He has won for “Born On The 4th Of July,” which I dare anybody reading this to try to watch 15 minutes of again. He won for writing “Midnight Express.” And, of course, he won for “Platoon,” coming up on 23 years ago. Which brings me to something I just noticed about Platoon, tewnty years later. The film owes a lot of its dramatic tension to the sountrack. The soundtrack includes a bunch of “K-Tel Presents the 60’s” standards, and one haunting classical piece that really makes the movie. The melody is called “Adagio For Strings,” and it is riffed throughout, whenever a helicopter takes off and so-forth. It is also used when the typical American troops slaughter innocent civilians, burn a village, hold a gun to a toddler’s head, and attempt a rape. It is also used in the iconic scene when William DaFoe dies. It should be. It’s a beautiful song, and it has become iconic. Whenever anyone parodies “Platoon,” you always hear that song and know immediately what the referrence is. Without “Adagio For Strings,” there’s no chance “Platoon” would have been nearly as powerful a movie. But here’s the problem, as I just discovered this week: Stone did not come up with that song on his own and employ so masterfully. If is also the focal point of “The Elephant Man,” which came out six years earlier. It was a much better movie. At the same time sadder and more depressing, but also somehow more uplifting. “Elephant Man” uses the exact same song “Adagio For Strings” for its dramatic moment, including the climactic scene where Merrik kills himself trying to sleep like a normal person. And “Elephant Man” doesn’t bang you over the head with the song the way Stone does.

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