Fox holds 'Wall Street' sequel (Oliver Stone gunning for Cannes as Michael Moore did)

Variety ^ | 03/10/10 | PAMELA MCCLINTOCK

[TigerLikesRooster]

Fox holds 'Wall Street' sequel

Studio to release 'Money Never Sleeps' on Sept. 24

By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK

With an invite from the Cannes Film Festival likely coming, 20th Century Fox is pushing back the release of Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" from April 23 to Sept. 24.

Insiders say the film has a strong shot at being included in the fest, which runs May 12-23. Fox would not comment.

The sequel returns Michael Douglas return in the role of Gordon Gekko, starring opposite Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan and Josh Brolin.

Stone's film picks up 23 years after his first one left off. It is 2008 and Gekko, who has just been released from prison, tries to warn Wall Street of the pending financial collapse, but no one listens to him because he's considered a crook.

Instead, Gekko tries to reconcile with his daughter by helping her fiance, a young stock broker whose mother has been murdered, exact revenge on the hedge fund manager responsible for the crime

[TigerLikesRooster]

First, "Bowling for Columbine" and probably "Money Never Sleeps." Two nutcases lionized by frog leftists? :-)

[ConservaTexan]

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

[TChris]

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

I disagree that greed is inherently good. Holy Scripture teaches otherwise.

But economic liberty (called free-market capitalism) neutralizes our inherent greed and redirects it into economic benefit.

Greed WITHOUT capitalism, well... look at the history of Communism.

[Sybeck1]

Shia LaBeouf

Thespian this dude is not.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Instead, Gekko tries to reconcile with his daughter by helping her fiance, a young stock broker whose mother has been murdered, exact revenge on the hedge fund manager responsible for the crime"

Sounds lame. This isn't the Gordon Gekko I know.

[Clemenza]

Yeech. The only thing that would have made things worse would be a screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis of Jay McInhery.

[Clemenza]

Shia LaDouche looks like a scrawny Sephardi Richard Gere. Mice rather than Gerbils in his case.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Shia LaBeouf"

Every time I see that name, I think of the actress that played the oldest daughter on "The Cosby Show" who married that dufus son of Congressman Major Owens.

[GOPsterinMA]

Greed ain’t good when a Rat is in the White House...