Wall Street 2 : Money Never Sleeps

Greed is Good ! Gordon Gekko is back!

Director Oliver Stone has often reflected upon the nation’s past in such films as Platoon,Born on the Fourth of July,JFKand Nixon. But, unlike history, he doesn’t like to repeat himself. Until now, that is, when Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to his 1987 descent into the dirty business of corporate raiding, opens this spring.

Michael Douglas, who earned an Oscar for his iconic portrayal of cutthroat corporate raider Gordon Gekko, along with original producer Edward R. Pressman, brought a draft of the script to Stone’s attention last March. “I loved it,” Stone says. “It hooked me. I had passed on the original script by another writer about a year before, but that was before the crash happened. A lot has gone on since.” While Charlie Sheen’s Bud Fox puts in a cameo, his protege role has been usurped by Shia La Beouf as an ambitious hedge-funder who is engaged to Gekko’s estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan of An Education).

Stone reveals some of the details behind his return to the mean streets of high finance to USA TODAY’s Susan Wloszczyna.

It’s 2008, and hedge-fund trader Jacob Moore (Shia LeBeouf) is watching as the stock market and his future take a downward spiral on his computer screen. “He’s a very successful investment banker and his firm is being threatened with bankruptcy,” Stone explains.

The scene was shot on location at Knight Capital Group in Jersey City. “It’s a huge profit exchange,” he says. “There are about 400 or so desks that overlook the Manhattan skyline.”
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