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Is Greed Still Good?? Fox To Bring Back Gordon Gekko For WALL STREET II!!
I am – Hercules!!
Allan Loeb, who wrote "21" and created the terrible Fox TV series "New Amsterdam," is penning the “Wall Street” sequel “Money Never Sleeps,” centered on the character Michael Douglas played in the original.
Douglas, not yet attached, is waiting to see the script. No mention of Oliver Stone, who co-wrote (with "W" screenwriter Stanley Weiser) and directed the 1987 original.
Find all of the Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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Is Gekko now a New England Congressman who made a bundle off Fannie and Freddie?
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This sickening oversequelization needs to be nipped. Nipped in the budget.
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and with the current crisis....people dont want to hear any more about Wall Street
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really?
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did we see the same show?.....i thought it was a nice twist on the Police drama...shame it didnt last longer
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One of the few properties that could legitimately be 'sequelised' and people are already bitching about it? If not for the legitimately interesting question of what those 80s economic sensibilities have evolved into 20 odd years later then just for the schadenfreude I think this could work.
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Needs to be in this if they insist on making it. He can be the mortgage broker who thinks he's the shit and then flips out when he loses all his source of income (and then rejoice with the bailout?).
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But there was no writer attatched. If done right, it could be very interesting.
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Back to the well for Fox, considering how they've had a pretty gawdawful summer with X-Files 2 underperforming and City of Ember being a flat-out-fuckin bomb. I think Fox's last good box office performance may have been Horton Hears a Who and that was, what, February?
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I mean....greed....Wall Street Sequel....Fox....
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Jack Colton is a mondo dismo.
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...just wish it wasn't being written by a chump that can't write his way out of a paper bag. 21!?!? JESUS!
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That is all.
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Somewhat interesting idea, some well thought out characters, but poor execution. Essentially it was a rip off of Highlander and the flashback scenes were terrible. The one that stands out was supposed to take place in the 1600's and everyone including the Indians spoke w/ perfect American accents and slang. Sloppy details like that just piss me off. Its laziness pure and simple.
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Yeah it follows Gekko as he is paid off to draft legislation which encourages predatory lending, he makes a fortune off the crisis, then drafts the bailout legislation which really just pays off his buddies in the mortgage industry (who he naturally condemns in fiery speeches wink wink) His constituents who are too stupid to realize what he has done (or too happy about the stimulus check's from the government to care)re-elect him with 70 percent of the vote.
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Here's the twist . . . with aliens.
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Seven more years.
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Sweet I always wondered if it would be a better movie if it had starred Shia and was directed by Bret Ratner! Doc will be all CGI of course. And it will be updated so they go back to the eighties - cuz those shows on VH1 are so popular.
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New Amsterdam was fun... nice to know it was fuckheads like Hercules what killed a decent hour of American television.
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Ugh.
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'nuff said...
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Oliver Stone will have no part of this and this will turn into a joke.
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Just guessing, based on the year BTTF II is set in, or... based on anything concrete? Do tell...
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Seriously, what the fuck people? Does every movie made in the 1980s need either a remake or a long ass delayed sequel? oh...wall street II...lol BANK CRISIS !!!! LOLZ
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I married. Even the theater we saw it in is gone now. I gotta say that if it is written well it could be fun.
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Ten Commandments: 2 - Eleven Commandments
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The government is investing in troubled banks now. They should expand those programs to include lame ass studios like Fox.
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I fully agree with you. Just thought I'd let you know you're not completely batshit crazy. If they do it, I hope Stone is heavily involved. He always interests me, even when it's not working -- but when he's on, he's one of my favorite directors out there. Loved JFK and Wall Street, and there's a lot to like in Any Given Sunday and a few others. (Not a huge fan of Platoon).
The inevitable new protege in WS2 better do blow off a hooker's ass though out the entire go-go second act. And he better not be black. We know there's no black guys on Wall Street besides Will Smith, the robo-box salesman. -
2010 dude who travels back to the 80s and it will be lame, not that the 80s were lame it's just because we already played out the 80s nostalgia.
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Wall Street Bonuses Hit Record $39 Billion for 2007 (Update3)
By Christine Harper
Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street's five biggest firms are paying a record $39 billion in bonuses for 2007, a year when three of the companies suffered the worst quarterly losses in their history and shareholders lost more than $80 billion.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos. together awarded $65.6 billion in compensation and benefits last year to their 186,000 employees. That means year-end bonuses, at 60 percent of the total, exceeded the $36 billion distributed in 2006 when the industry reported all-time high profits.
The New York-based firms, which shed 25 percent of their equity value during 2007, have said they're eliminating at least 6,200 jobs amid mounting losses from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. The payouts come as the U.S. economy slows, with unemployment rising, retail sales declining and new home foreclosures surging to a record.
``To many people, it will be shocking and questionable,'' said Jeanne Branthover, managing director of Boyden Global Executive Search in New York. ``People in New York in the world of investment banking will understand it. It's critical that pay is still there or you're going to lose really good people.''
The industry's bonuses are larger than the gross domestic products of Sri Lanka, Lebanon or Bulgaria, and the average bonus of $219,198 is more than four times higher than the median U.S. household income in 2006, according to data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.----
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Remember kids - This isn't a failure of the free market: It's Victory! -
so she can sleepwalk her way through this one?
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Didn't Douglas just have trouble on a foreign junket where some guy kept asking him financial questions and calling him Gordon?
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Doc: "Marty, you have to go back and save the series from the ultimate doom of doing a western re-make"Marty: "But Doc, I like horses. Plus, it make me a millionaire."Doc: We should have stopped with the hover-board."Marty: "You have sense of hollywood rape-mongering. We can at least pull out another 100 million on a sequel."Doc: "By God, your right. What's stopping us from cashing in on the ignorance of the American public. Let's do it!"
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Oct 14, 2008 12:31:19 AM CDT
Greed was good. Greed worked. And greed, you mark my words,
by det. john kimble
will not only fuck Fox in the ass, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the United States of America.
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Seems to me this is one sequel that might have something to say, especially with all the shit going down on the markets right now. The movie could be out of date by the time it hits the theatres though!
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FOX is a shit bag movie studio. When was the last time they has an actual hit that was actually on purpose? They have to stumble on a hot like Alvin and the chipmunks. Maybe they'll have luck with The Day the Earth stood Still, but overall that studio rarly cranks out a good film.
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OWNED THE 80's!!! I tells ya it's true! No Back To The Future remakes/reboots/reimaginings/sequels/prequels/spinoffs or tv shows. Let the classic trilogy age gracefully with Mr. J. Fox, thankyou.
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neva saw it. worth a look? will i be wanting a sequel?
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Easily.
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memo to LA LA Land: there is this wonderful supply of new and interesting stories to be told in film form. It's called books and original sceenplays. Who the clucking bell is going to actually PAY to see this???
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Gordon Gekko is a scumbag. He's not a main character. You have him as a main character, then you give him depth... which is idiotic.
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The end. There, I've ruined it for you.
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... oh wait, NO IT DIDN'T.
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Oct 14, 2008 8:19:56 AM CDT
This sequel might be marginally interesting if done
by shut the fuck up donny
in a manner similar to "The Hustler" and "The Color of Money"
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why hire some hack TV writer?
why do all these hack writers think they can update classic films? (Blade Runner sequel anyone?) Why can't I have a job as a studio exec? I'm sure I can make decisions as bad as these. -
You all forgot how cool it would be to have Terrence Stamp come in as Sir Larry Wildman and put everyone in their proper place again. "I could buy your ass." Thing is, the last film was told through Charlie Sheen's character's POV. We went with him through Wall Street. I don't think a Gekko-centered story would resonate as much. The story would need another stooge.
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Oct 14, 2008 2:14:05 PM CDT
REWRITE THE BIBLE WHILE YOU'RE AT IT FUCKING CHILDHOOD RAPISTS
by bringingsexyback
Michael Douglas cannot be seriously considering this. Wall Street cannot be touched. It is perfection that cannot be tarnished by sequels and spin-offs. Someone please do something about this. I'm ill.
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You have a big void to fill. Watch it ASAP. Prepare for an adventure.
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Gekko still in prison, Buddy running Bluestar for Sir Lawrence. What's there to do a sequel about?
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Ok - cuz I'm bored - correct me if Im wrong - Comic Book Movie - Dark Knight for the 2000s versus .. um ... what in the 1980s? 1-0 Best animated movie 1980s had Little Mermaid - 2000s have Incredibles/Wall-E - oh thats 2-0 for 2000s. Best Horror - ok - Shining was 1980 - 2-1. Best Comedy - here it gets tricky - I'd argue again the Pixar movies are better than any comedy put up in the 1980s - debatable - split - 21/2 -1 1/s. Crime 2000s has City of God - 1980s has Body Heat - 3 1/2 to 1/12. Fantasy - Lets give that to Empire over LOTR - 3 1/2 to 2 1/2. Action - Raiders versus Sin City - Raiders ... 3 1/s vs 3 1/2. Ok - so its pretty close there - still, I'm gonna have to say, with a year left - 2000s are better than 1980s.
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And didnt they already sorta/kinda remake it with Boiler Room. Oh wait - the endless quoting from that movie. Come to think of it - Boiler Room was clearly written by someone who stumbled across their dads video collection - Affleck's motivational speech was a total rip of Glengarry Glen Ross
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There. I said it. What are you gonna do about it?
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You know it will happen.
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Jim Garrison and his wife chaperone their son's high school prom. While at the prom a bucket of pig's blood is splilled on Garrison's wife and she uses her psychic powers on all in attendance.
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...of Brett Ratner?
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...you guys were in your 20s then... you're in your 40's now... if you make out in the theatre, it ain't gonna be fun for the folks in your aisle to have to watch. Please...for the love of god...wait for it to come out on DVD/BluRay and watch it at home!!!
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...but FOX canned it before I could find it on the sked. Guess I wasn't missing much. I've had the same prob w/ the Yank version of Life On Mars.
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in 3-D!
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Oct 14, 2008 5:36:44 PM CDT
like the finance industry, hollywood is making a rod for its own
by mr_x
let's reboot and remake! I'll get a whopping bonus.. happy days! *crash*
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America needs you!
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Stole it's device from Highlander. It's Highlander. If Highlander were a cop. Oh and no cool sword fights or beheadings. It sucked. But it was still better than "Highlander: The Source".
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...work out his issues over his off shore portfolio tanking.
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I can see it now: Marty McFly living in 2015, goes back to 1985 in a Dodge Viper. The 80's will be quaint, just as the 50's were to the 1985 original. Damn, it's hard to believe the movie came out almost 25 years ago.
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and then fuck off
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This 20-30 year "strike while the iron is hot" sequel making really needs to stop.
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