Wall Street 2: Electric Boogaloo

[razorboy]

As if the first one wasn't shitty enough... (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2009/04/28/sequel-wall-street-confirm.html)

[Slumbag]

According to various media reports, actor Shia LaBeouf is in talks to play a young trader in the new film, in an update of the role Charlie Sheen portrayed in the original.
Out.

[AKA]

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/arts/photos/2008/10/14/m-douglas-cp-250-4710313.jpg

Well, if Douglas doesn't sign on, I'm sure they can always get Dame Judy Dench.

http://www.celebritywonder.com/picture/Judi_Dench/DameJudiDenc_DeGuire_10470318.jpg

[mikeyboy]

Out.

Seriously. Why is Hollywood cramming that kid down our throats? I really don't see whatever it is that apparently makes him so special.

[ChrisTheCop]

Seriously. Why is Hollywood cramming that kid down our throats? I really don't see whatever it is that apparently makes him so special.

He's got a New Orleans stripper's name, so that gets you excited, then they pull the ol' switcheroo, and BAM! Gets 'em every time.

[hammersavage]

We’ve known for a while that Oliver Stone was doing a sequel to Wall Street (1987), but now Nikki Finke has details.

I’m told that screenwriter Allan Loeb (21, Things We Lost In The Fire) will hand in his second draft to Fox later this week. I heard Loeb’s first draft was “so great” that Stone didn’t feel the need to touch it.

That’s interesting, considering 21 was a cliché-ridden hunk of sh*t.

I’m told Wall Street 2’s story spans from June 2008 through the federal bailout. “We wanted to see some perspective in the same way that the original dealt with insider trading,” a source explains to me. Michael Douglas reprises his Best Actor Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko. […] As the movie begins, it’s 21 years later and Mr. Greed Is Good has finished serving his prison sentence. He finds himself on the fringe of the financial community. (”Kinda like Jim Cramer or Mike Milken after their disgrace,” an insider tells me.) Gekko is cautioning Wall Street that the “end is coming” — but nobody is listening. So Gordon is obsessed with trying to repair his ruptured relationship with his daughter.

So, kinda like The Wrestler with hair gel instead of steroids.

Enter Shia LaBeouf [DON'T MIND IF I DO. -Ed.], who was reported in negotiations and I can now state is set to co-star. Shia is a young Wall Street trader who’s engaged to be married to Gekko’s estranged daughter. Shia wants to be a major player, but his mentor unexpectedly kills himself, and Shia thinks a stock-shorting worldwide hedge fund manager is responsible. Shia seeks revenge on this villain, to be played by No Country For Old Men Supporting Actor-winner Javier Bardem. So Shia goes to Gordon saying, “I need your help”, and makes a Faustian deal with Gekko who in return wants Shia’s help getting back with the daughter. From then on, it’s “antagonism” for everyone, my insider says.

Plot and cast details.

[Gerald]

I was hoping to see the gigantic paperweight phone Transform® into a jive-talking robot.

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[Furtherman]

Seriously. Why is Hollywood cramming that kid down our throats? I really don't see whatever it is that apparently makes him so special.

If you go back years ago to the show when Ron was talking about The Battle Of Shaker Heights, he called it that Shia would be a star.

[Don Stugots]

i liked the music but the movie looks like crap

[KnoxHarrington]

My feeling is that Stone is too far up his own ass, lost in Conspiracy Theory Land, to make a quality movie anymore.

This movie will basically be ranting 2 hours about how the bankers are fucking us. And while I tend to agree, I also don't want to sit through that movie.

[pennington]

To repeat myself from the Midnight Run 2 thread:

Sequels made too many years after the original are generally a bad idea (Yes, I'm talking to you "Godfather III" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull").

[Gerald]

To repeat myself from the Midnight Run 2 thread:

Sequels made too many years after the original are generally a bad idea (Yes, I'm talking to you "Godfather III" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull").

Superman Returns.

[opie's twisted balls]

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wow.....I mean WOW.......that looks like an epic awe inspiring bucket of shit!

after the hacky opening ripoff of the Blues Brothers prison release scene I was honestly expecting it to be a parody but nope

[pennington]

wow.....I mean WOW.......that looks like an epic awe inspiring bucket of shit!

after the hacky opening ripoff of the Blues Brothers prison release scene I was honestly expecting it to be a parody but nope

I actually was half-expecting Dan Ackroyd to pick up Michael Douglas when he left the prison.

I suppose it's a good thing Oliver Stone didn't write this, but it will probably still be a mess. Expect a short theatrical run with a quick trip to the "Director's Cut" DVD.

[Contra]

I can't wait

[hedges]

electric boogaloo

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[Contra]

Just watched the trailer, who could be intimidated by mikey D anymore?

[Hottub]

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[TeeBone]

Wall Street 2: Electric Boogaloo... (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2009/04/28/sequel-wall-street-confirm.html)

This thread would have been way better had it been called, Wall Street 2: The Jewel of the Nile

http://www.highdefdigest.com/images/post/6/6274/original.jpeg

[hammersavage]

saw the international trailer. it was much, much better. made me really want to see it.

[Coach]

I half expected him and his pal Harry to kick some thugs in the groin somewhere in there..

[Gerald]

What was the last truly great Oliver Stone film? Nixon was what came off the top of my head.

[razorboy]

What was the last truly great Oliver Stone film? Nixon was what came off the top of my head.

Nixon was crap.