As briefly mentioned yesterday, Oliver Stone has signed on to direct the Wall Street sequel, after previously bailing on the project (whose original title, Money Never Sleeps, has blissfully been shelved). That’s where the good news ends and the Shia LaBeouf begins. He’s currently in negotiations to “play a young Wall Street trader under Gekko’s spell– a somewhat updated version of the character Charlie Sheen played in the original film.” While we can see LaBeouf playing a 2009 version of the sniveling Seth Davis,* this just won’t do. Hopefully the talks will fall through and when that happens, we need to be prepared to offer a more suitable alternative. Who shall that be? Don’t be afraid to think outside the box. Once you’ve answered that, determine a working list of Wall Street “personalities” we’d like to make appearances as themselves. Jimmy Cayne– given. But what about Meredith Whitney? Jamie Dimon? Jim Chanos? Mark Haines? Let’s inject some authenticity up in this piece. Lastly, since it sounds like the script isn’t exactly finalized, what do we think of a storyline involving a burning passion between Erin Callan and David Einhorny, ignited over a balance sheet brawl?
*In a Boiler Room sequel no one’s announced plans to make.
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emilio estevez
They should sign Brtiney Spears. Unemployed, career going nowhere, used to have money but is soon going to be broke and doesn’t have a fucking clue about anything related to finance. Doesn’t that about sum up the “talent” of Wall Street for the past 10 years?
Well Thain is looking for work
Will Smith is the only choice. He has experience in finance.
Also, not mentioned in the article, but Erin Burnett is expected to do a nude scene.
@3- brilliant pick
Dick Fuld in the early years
Jimmy Cayne, definitely
Maxine Waters
Zac Efron.
Tom Cruise as Gekko
Dakota Fanning as Seth Davis
How about that young charmer from Menace II Society that murdered the store clerk?
Adam Carolla
Speaking of fallen wall street leaders, does anyone know if geoffrey raymond coming back to 85 broad with his “annotated citi” today?
@9 Unless my satire detector is off this early, I think they want to portray testosterone, not estrogen.
That guy looks sweet enough to be aa Arab Sheihks ‘personal assistant’.
Emmanuel Lewis – he was never able to fully come into his own in the Webster role. I feel that this is the project that could take him there as the story unveils the single overleveraged midget who’s greed combined with evil short selling and CDS wreck the global financial system. I don’t have a character name yet but something that rings of scapegoat.
Elisha Culberth
How about a woman for the Bud Foxx role? It’s basically the Anne Hathaway character from “Devil Wears Prada” anyway.
I’ll vote for Natalie Portman, with Glenn Close as Jordan Gekko.
Is Daryl Hannah back?
@14, very sarcastic, unless this turns out to be a cheesy musical…
@8 – you are right, she’ll sweep the Academy awards!
@19 what are you talking about? Blazing Saddles works amazingly well
- a black guy
I am hoping the ShamWow guy gets a reading.
Michael Cera
Matthew Fox as Bud, with Terry O’Quinn as Gordon. “The market WANTS us to come back….”
This should be repurposed as a Bollywood production (“Slumdog Modelers”?) starring Mithun Chakraborty and Prithvaraj Kapoor.
@2 Awesome
@17 Get a clue, chicks on Wall St. Suck (literal and figurative!)
John Mack needs to be in this as Gekkos target to out trade and take all his money. Hmmmm…on second thought…that would be too obvious!
@19- he is WAY too old
Gee, who can portray an effete Ivy League Wall Streeter?
Tom Cruise as Gekko and Zac Efron as Bud Fox.
“Bud, quit being naive. Only wirehouse idiots pay their taxes. Oops! You dropped the soap again! Lucky me!”
I’m putting in some phonecalls for my client, “Soulja Boy Tell Em…”
“Hop up out da beeeeedddddd, turn my swag oonnnnnnnnnnnnnn….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1cO-yoDiVk&feature=channel_page
Two words: Seth Rogen (“what is this Bloomberg thing, uh? ha ha ha… I am so funny… ha ha ha”)
“Gee, who can portray an effete Ivy League Wall Streeter?
Tom Cruise as Gekko”
Douglas has already agreed to play Gekko.
zack braff.
@26 nailed it……
also this is for you 23:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=UWRyj5cHIQA
Meredith Whitney, maybe she’ll actually learn how to do the job rather than get lucky here and there.
Victor Garber in brownface as Vikram Pandit.
Seth Rogen…. he’s in every other movie anyway. Be nice to see a chubby jew in the role… far more realistic.
A close second is the dude who plays Stiffler.
It’s 2009, and Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen reprising his role) is living out in Malibu with his brother and nephew, who moved in to help with the rent after Bud’s partner, Danny Boy Pang (played with surprising subtlety by Jackie Chan)got arrested for writing a lot of checks for $ 9,999. but other than that, was pretty legit. Bud Jet Blues it to JFK, where he gets in a cab driven by one Vik P. (played by that guy who played Gandhi because frankly, I’m just not that familiar with Bollywood) who gives him lots of advice about life and love and what might have been on the journey to Lenox Hill … where Bud’s ex-boss Gordo (played this time by Joan Rivers, because who can tell the diff — plus, she didn’t need back-end points) has been hooked up to a ventilator after a dermabrasion procedure in Antigua that went horribly wrong, but thanks to the quick thinking and heroic efforts of Gordo’s friend Sir Allen (played by John Cleese)…
I don’t really have anything after that.
@26/34 Remind me again how finance has anything to with India besides our out-sourced IT department and my occasional lunch.
Kumar from Harold and Kumar as the swaps trader, britney as any sales person and seth rogan as the relationship broker.
Ruth Madoff as Darryl Hannah
No way Will Smith should be involved, if anything go for a no name actor, someone like LaSalle basketball star Rodney Green.
Chet Holmes as Bud Fox
Sig Hansen as Greenhorn Gekko
Courtney Love as Global Head of Risk Management
Lindsay Lohan as Chief Compliance Officer
Ken Lewis as himself
Chuck Norris as Gekko.
@19
Keanu is part asian. look at his name.
i remember at a certain swiss bank when they had us take some dumb test on Basel and other regs there were several questions about Bud F. and Gordon G. and we had to decipher exactly what was wrong about Bud F. leaking info to Gordon G.
so basically, im saying my pick would be Carl Q
Jim Cayne, Stan O’Neal, and Chuck Prince as the “Star Chamber”
megan fox. b/c she’s hot
New title suggestions, too:
“Not Only Does Money Sleep, It Sleeps With the Fishes”
“Clueless 2″
“Harold and Kumar Take Down the Global Economy”
“85 Broad Street”
@44
19 – Keanu excels in parts where his head is, for some reason, wired to a computer -so, maybe cast him as a quant trading blackbox.
Otherwise, Andy Garcia and Scott Caan (possibly Casey Afleck)
Charlie Gasparino.
Keanu Reeves as Bud Fox. Gary Busey as Marvin, his trader friend.
you’re all idiots, christian bale as lead role, supporting actors are 50-Cent (ivy-league grad, got in bc of affirmative action, quick to impress, greedy, corrupt), zack braff (wharton jewish nerd, grew up in brooklyn, corrupt), and one of the Baldwin twins
brian bozworth s/b gekko
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Anyone from Credit Suisse because they are the new killing it.
Megan Fox in it and rename it “Megan Fox Does Wall Street”
Jamie Dimon should, of course, be played by David Hasselhoff.
Tim Sykes please.
Bud Fox should be played by Owen Wilson’s Nose.
Kevin Spacey as Einhorn.
Forrest Whittaker as John Carney
Lady Gaga as Bess
Boom
Bud’s ex-boss Gordo has been hooked up to a ventilator after a dermabrasion procedure in Antigua that went horribly wrong. Gordo’s friend Sir Allen (played by John Cleese) has been in contact with Ken Lay (played by Vern Troyer. He is, of course, wearing a cheesy Allen Stanford moustache. In fact, everyone in the movie is wearing a cheesy Allen Stanford moustache, which is why John Cleese and Joan Rivers both made the cut).
It seems Key didn’t suffer a heart attack. Rather, he faked his own death and teamed up with Sir Allen in a dastardly plot to rule the world from a secret island lair on a secluded Caribbean island. Ken calls up his energy trading buddies down in Houston and they shut down the power grid in New York, shutting off power to Gekko’s ventilator. End Scene.
Scene Two:
In the secluded island fortress, Ken Lay and Allen Stanford contact Tim Geithner (played Gilber Gottfried sporting a cheesy Allen Stanford moustache) and threaten to unleash their plot to ruin the financial world by unleashing an army of wealthy but corrupt money managers on the jewish country clubs throughout Florida to fleece wealthy retirees through various ponzi schemes unless that are paid EIGHT BIIILLIIION dollars of Tarp money. Meanwhile, James Bond (played by Jimmy Fallon – wearing a cheesy Allen Stanford moustache), Octopussy (played by Nadya Suleman wearing a cheesy Allen Stanford moustache) and Odd Job (played by a stoned as hell Jimmy Cayne – wearing a cheesy Allen Stanford moustache) begin to plan how to save the financial system of the world. meanwhile, at the White House, SuperObama (played by Oprah – wearing a cheesy Allen Stanford moustache) gets into his tights with the big black “O” on the chest, dons his cape and gets set to save the world’s financial system!
Sasha Baron Cohen
we’re gonna need a clean-up… on aisle 3…
An anerxic Bruce Willis as Hank Paulson, The guy who played Nixon in Frost/Nixon as Dick Fuld, Alec Baldwin as Chairman Gordo’s MD, Ben Stiller as an awkward and otherwise useless a-hole VP and let’s be honest, Megan Fox needs to be involved somehow.
@girl – FTW
@63, get a job!
@52 (and @19)- nailed it. Get the entire cast of Point Break in here for this. McGinley was in both movies but I like Busey better as Marvin. Swayze as Gekko.
Gekko: If you want the ultimate, you’ve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It’s not tragic to die doing what you love. Trade those fucking CDOs.
@28 and @46- you are haters.
66-
Megan Fox can play Mary Schapiro. We will all wait for her to punish those who really deserve to be but, of course, no one will ever get punished.
Ron Jeremy as Sandy Weil.
Girl,
So it’s true Lon Varney has a lazy-eye in person?
-still pontificating about rice now and again
O.J. Da Juiceman as the savant-like metals trader.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/o.j.%20da%20juiceman/scubastza/Blog%20Stuff/oj.jpg
rick ross as officer ricky
Scott Baio.
@ Lowly, Don’t forget all the stories that started with “so WE were having drinks with a friend from MS yesterday”…tear. No to the lazy eye but it’s abundantly clear that FW is the only guy who could handle such a challenging role.
Cheers Cluz!
Bwaaney Fwank as anyone.
Timmay! How could you not want the guy that turned $374 of Mitzvah cash into $7,500 over an 11 year run?
@ 54. Boz/Sooner fan here but you’re out of your gourd on this one…
Girl,
This was my favorite.
http://dealbreaker.com/2007/08/the-commercial-paper-crunchmid.php
All sorts of great in there.
@63- 38 here. Inspired and I’m liking that whole island lair bit. Can we get the guy with the metal teeth from the Roger Moore/James Bond movie or has he gone on “to greater things” — like, an urn on a mantle?
@68- I dunno what 63′s plans are, although those punctuation and grammar skills just scream Gainful Employment to me, but I’m starting at Chuck E. Cheese next Wednesday @ 11:00 a.m. sharp, thank you very much.
With full dental, I might add.
…bring back Sean Young as aged Mrs. Gekko. Include a scene where she finds out Gordon runs a ponzi scheme and has implicated her. She then takes revenge by supergluing his dick to his stomach.
A panicked Gekko reaches for his cell phone, with only enough battery left to place a frantic call to eager young floor trader, played by Andersen Cooper to pry it loose.
-BeckyBootFan
mark haines as Ollie “The Terminator”
meredith whitney as the hooker that picks up The Machine Sheen in the limo
maxine waters as sir larry wildman
gasparino as a Blue Star baggage handler
+100 for christian bale as gekko and anyone else as the wet behind the ears trader. thats because none of the younger actors measure up anyway.
mark haines as Ollie “The Terminator”
maxine waters as sir larry wildman
meredith whitney as the hooker that picks up The Machine Sheen in the limo
gasparino as a Blue Star baggage handler
To: Dealbreaker
From: Mary Slater
Re: Casting
Date: 4/29/09
Bess, Casting for Wall Street II and you ask your readers? Shame on you! Have your PA call mine! Here’s the list:
Bud Fox- Ed Westwick
Gordon Gecko- Javier Bardem
Meredith Whitney- Ricki Lake
Mark Haines- Pat Buttram(Mr. Haney from ‘Green Acres’)
Jimmy Cayne- James Coburn
Maria Bartiromo- Jennifer Lopez
Jim Chanos- Jeffrey Jones, (Ed Rooney from ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’)
Jamie Dimon- Daniel Craig
David Einhorn- Neil Patrick Harris
Erin Callan- Sharon Stone
Charles Gasparino- Leo DiCaprio
Dennis Neale- Crispin Glover
Erin Burnett- Jessica Alba
Donald Trump- Donald Trump
Ivanka Trump- Ivanka Trump
Call me!
Demetri Martin (Yale B.A. 1995)
yea christian bale would be awesome as the young wall street BSD except that movie was better when it was called American Psycho.
FEED ME A STRAY CAT
michael Rapaport as henry blodget
TRB
Plot will center around China. Anyone care?
Keifer Sutherland. C’mon guys…
Keifer Sutherland. C’mon guys…
Anne Hathaway as Bess Levin
Kate Hudson as Equity Private
David Faustino as Bud Fox..
Admiral Akbar (of Star Wars fame) as Jimmy Cayne.
INT. HOLLYWOOD (NJ) COUNTRY CLUB GRILLE ROOM – NIGHT
Bud Fox (Seth Rogen) and Jimmy Cayne (himself) have just finished a late round of golf. They decide to get high before their chopper ride back to Manhattan.
BUD
(Takes hit from joint)
Yo, Jimmy? You ever notice how, like, the floor’s just a table without legs?
JIMMY
(Glares at Bud)
Shut up, you little pissant. And quit bogarting that shit.
salacious crumb as jim cramer
erin burnett as princess leia (in bikini)
gasbagarino as principal vernon from the breakfast club (“does barry manilow know you raid his wardrobe?”)
what movie are we casting again?
Any new Wall Street film must have Bess and EP as characters. So I’ll say to play Bess lets have Ellen Page and to play EP lets have John Leguizamo.
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
Can we have Daniel Craig or Clive Owen as the English antagonist?
Angelo Mozilo as the sun
92-
Megan Fox as Bess Levin.
Who can we cast as the drunken idiot who declares “We don’t make money – we print it!”
Rick James as Maxine Waters
101-
Maxine Waters as Barack Obama
Mark-Paul Gosselaar.. done
Milton Waddams of course!
John Hamm plays the dad.
Shia LeBeuf plays the son – only he’s gone goth and is not into scouting anymore.
Dakota Fanning plays the younger brother. That’s right, brother.
Once you get these three signed up, Nic Cage will play the wrongfully accussed Pedophi…. err… “Insider Trader”.
Dig up Marlon Brando to play the evil CEO. And Seabiscuit and Secretariet can play NYC police horses.
- Judson
Bud Fox- john carney
Lou Manheim- hank paulson
Gordon Gekko- dick bove
Darien Taylor- meridyth whitney
Sir Larry Wildman- sir elton john
Marvin- wideclops
Rachel McAdams as Della Frye, aka Bess Levin
Russel Crowe as Equity Private
Ben Affleck as Guest
yea i actually saw state of play.
@99 FTW!
MATSUFLEX!!!
Rachel McAdams as Della Frye, aka Bess Levin
Russel Crowe as Equity Private
Ben Affleck as Guest
yea i actually saw state of play.
@99 FTW!
David Lee Roth as Rick Santelli
David Lee Roth as Maxine Waters
Lindsay Lohan as Ashely Dupre (sp?)
I should the lead – you’ll see me swinging my dick like its godzilla tail, bitches..
ghekko: rahm emmanuel
bernanke: guy from honey i shrunk the kids
bud fox: matthew mcconaughey
@ Lowly- That is effing classic. Brought bitter tears to my cold dead eyes.
Henry Paulson as Darth Vader with his helmet off
Tim Geithner as Girl in Elevator
Maxine Waters as Darth Vader with helmet on
Muffie as fluff girl in limo
John Leguizamo — as charles quintanilla
Mickey rourke – as larry kudlow
buffalo bill from silence of the lambs — gasparino
“would you f me? yeah — i’d f me.
i’d f me HARD.”
Gordon Gekko – DMX
Bud Fox – Fifty cent’s
Bernanke – Rev. Jesse Jackson
why do some many readers think that Equity Private is a dude? don’t you people know this website is entirely written by chicks!?
girl power of the pen.
@121 in the same vain
Meredith Whitney- Queen Latifah
+Frank Langela (Nixon in Frost/nixon) as Jim Simons
+Liberace(‘s ghost) as Steve Schwarzman
+Allen Stanford as Frank Quattrone
+Kathy Bates as Linda Thomsen
Queef Sister @122
i know she’s a girl. i asked her how much a polar bear weighs on her first day here.
@122 doesn’t get it.
To Wong Foo
Thanks for Everything,
Julie Newmar
Am I the only one who wants this to end with Gekko winning instead of some pansy daytime movie do-good message?
Gekko should come back, kick some ass, and then at the end retire on an island somewhere while the world’s financial system collapses.
Please, Oliver Stone, be a man!
Kal Penn as “Analyst #2″
Aleksey Vayner as Sir Lawrence Wildman??
Aleksey Vayner as Sir Lawrence Wildman??
John Cho as random asian dude on trading desk.
Kal Penn as random indian dude on trade desk.
Anything to reunite this cinematic box office smash duo.
In true business fashion this movie should follow the rules of Nepotism.
Gekko, Michael Douglas’s drug out son.
Bud Fox, Colin Hanks.
Daryl Hannahs part played by Francis Ford Coppola’s biggest casting mistake, his daughter.
Beetlejuice from the Stern Show as Maxine Waters.
High Pitch Eric from the Stern Show as Gordon Gekko’s head trader. Howard rules! Baba Boey!
Fuckface @ 46. Keanu is not an asian name.It is Hawaiian.
- part Asian guy from Hawaii
@36
HOLY SHIT!!!
SICK VIC REFERENCE!!!
@3 FTW… if only we could see some serious money-honey-on-money-honey action between Bartiromo and Burnett.
stop shia leblows…