Are you bearish or bullish on Oliver Stone's announcement that he's making a sequel to Wall Street, his 1987 film about how the greed-is-good creed leads to Very Bad Things? My kneejerk reaction was "WTF?" But I'm enjoying Michael Douglas lately (he's loosey-goosey funny as a playboy of Robert Evans vintage in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past), and it might be fun to see him revisit the slimy character of Gordon Gekko (for which he won an acting Oscar, a feat his father, Kirk, never realized). If memory serves, at the end of Wall Street, Gekko was headed to prison. Will he emerge as a Bernie Madoff type? Shia LaBeouf, everyone's favorite idealistic manchild, is in talks to play Gekko's protege. Certainly, the national mood is receptive to a greed-is-bad film.
I liked it when Eddie Felson, Paul Newman's antihero of The Hustler, resurfaced some 25 years later in The Color of Money. Thoughts? (Either on this particular sequel or sequels in general). (Hat tip to Gary Kramer).
Just as an intial reaction, I think this is a bad idea - Wall Street was all about the 80's and the excesses therein; it was a great period piece that I really like. However, Gekko's fate was never firmed up at the end of the movie - it just showed Charlie Sheen's character, Bud Fox, being dropped off at federal court by his parents in Manhattan to testify against Gekko. And if Stone manages to get this movie off the ground, please reconsider the casting of LaBeouf, there is no way he can pull it off - it would be a total miscast.— CTL- CTL: If Stone can pull this off, he might be able to distill greed in the "naugthy 'oughties" -- as some call the 'ought years of the new millennium -- as he did in the 1980s. If in the 1980s, conspicuous consumption was in art and real estate, what did it look like in the first decade of the new century?— carrierickey
- Carrie - you called me on that one. There are quite a few similarities between the underhanded corporate raiding of the 80s (anybody remember the KKR takeover of Nabisco?), and the disaster that led to our current state of affairs. If Stone can make the story transition betwen then and now, it would be something to see Michael Douglas as Gekko licking his chops for another round of unregulated greed. I think it would be great as well to see Terrence Stamp return as Sir Lawrence Wilder - Gekko certainly has a score to settle with him.— CTL
- why not? someone is bound to do a remake of the original sooner or later and rename, so oli may as well make s sequal before that happens— jon7173
- why not? someone is bound to do a remake of the original sooner or later and rename, so oli may as well make s squeal before that happens— jon7173
- perhaps the new Gordon would say; " GREEN is good, GREEN motivates, .... the "environmentally conscious" Gordon a contempoary Gordon, who WILL make a lot of green in the GREEN DAYS that are here now...thank goodness— penntreaty
- Penntreaty: Hilarious. But I cam't imagine Gekko going from greed to green (in the ecological sense), can you?— carrierickey
- Penntreaty: Hilarious. But I cam't imagine Gekko going from greed to green (in the ecological sense), can you?— carrierickey
- Darth Vader returns. And more than once. Why shouldn't he? Only this time, he will probably have a Ponzi scheme and/or some kind of colleague whose name sounds like "Bernie."— Deborah Frost
- Not a bad sequel, but I'd rather see how Ferris Bueller in managing in his forties than a post-jail Gekko at retirement age.— KDH
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