It seems, against our (and your) better wishes, Shia LaBeouf has been cast in Wall Street 2 (as has Javier Bardem, and, obviously, Michael Douglas). The only part left up for grabs is that of Gordon Gekko's daughter, and LaBeouf's love interest, so if you've got any ideas, please share at this time. Here's a bit about the plot, courtesy of Nikke Finke. Read it and see if you can figure out who the "stock-shorting worldwide hedge fund manager" is based on, while we bitch and moan about this a little while longer to ourselves:
Michael Douglas, as everyone already knows, reprises his Best Actor Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko. But what hasn't been reported is that, 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 with the pic 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. That juicy actress role isn't cast yet. (But I'd love it if Oliver had the balls to bring back Sean Young as Mom in spite of their notorious falling out during the filming of the original.)
Enter Shia LaBeouf, who was reported in negotiations and I can now state is set to co-star. (I've said it before, and I'll say it again: one day every Hollywood movie will star this guy who turns 23 on June 11th.) 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 Oscar-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.
Earlier: Limited Time Left To Break Up Negotiations Between Shia LaBeouf And Wall Street 2 Producers
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:23PM
uuughhh....
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:25PM
No hot starlet can save this movie now.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:26PM
a "stock-shorting worldwide hedge fund manager"
Oooh, one couldn't think of a more insidious modern villian.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:26PM
I hear your ticket comes with a pillow and an apology from the producer.
This movie makes we wonder why they never made a Poison Ivy 4 or or "Passion of the Christ 2, he's back and he's pissed"
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:27PM
No hot starlet can save this movie now.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:28PM
No hot starlet can save this movie now.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:30PM
No hot starlet can save this movie now.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:31PM
No hot starlet can save this movie now.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:32PM
Can a hot starlet save this movie now?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:33PM
No hot starlet can save this movie now.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:34PM
Can a hot starlet save this movie now?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:35PM
I take it Catherine Zeta-Jones is gotta be in the lead for Douglas' daughter? I mean, she is a believable age to be his daughter?
Posted by Gordon Gekko , Jun 02, 2009 2:38PM
Would it be wrong to bang your daughter if played by Megan Fox?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:40PM
Whatever happened to GG's son? Didn't get into that good pre-school so he's still waddling around the pool throwing cake at the guests?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:41PM
why is everyone so quick to criticize every element of this movie before it even comes out? If you had read a plot summary of the first one and that Charlie Sheen was going to be cast as a hot-shot broker who orchestrates a stock pump and dump scheme all on his own to get back at GG for betraying his father, I'm sure you'd all be bashing that too.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:43PM
Two hot starlets can save this movie now
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:43PM
Erin Callan
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:46PM
Wait...Shia LaBeouf wasn't cast as the daughter? WTF?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:49PM
rudy batooty how's my cutie? taking French lessons Shia?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:52PM
9 & 11...HAHAHA..
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:56PM
Dear God...Shia LeBeouf...please, don't. The original is every guy's fantasy, don't cast Shia LeBeouf and ruin the sequal.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 2:59PM
@15... I'm going to take your milk money, then beat you up during recess.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:01PM
megan fox can save this movie
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:03PM
This is a job that only Keanu Reeves can handle.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:03PM
haha shia... thats 'cute'
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:03PM
Word is that Sean Young will not reprise her role as Gekko's wife in the sequel. Instead that role will be filled by Susan Boyle.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:04PM
@23...True dat...
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:06PM
@15
Oliver Stones movies really aren't that good, have you see what he has done since Wall Street (ie the last 22 years)? It has been an enormous pile of crap. Not to mention, most movies are a Ten Dollar crap sandwich. And did you see the latest Indiana Jones? Doesn't help LeBeouf's prospects for being made fun of.
If we get a Stevie Cohen cameo, THEN thoughts might change-- and that is Change We Can Believe In.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:09PM
@22 = small dick
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:11PM
If you don't like one of these, then please let me know:
1) One of the Noel daughters
2) Tori (Victoria) Thain
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:13PM
This is gayer than Hank Greenburg...and that's GAY!
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:14PM
@15 because lebouf is simply terrible and the father/daughter love story sounds about as interesting as a greg michaels post
javier bardem could be fun, but the whole short-selling / mentor suicide thing doesn't hold much promise
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:15PM
Shana Madoff as Gekko's daughter
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:18PM
I wish LaBeouf would get his LeBallsac out of my face.
Kanye
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:18PM
I think Shia LaBeouf is a wonderful choice!!!
Hugs & kisses,
Maurice Greenberg
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:21PM
@32 Greg Michaels burn alert!
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:27PM
Since you can't fuck the movie up any more than it already is... Tilda Swindon for the daughter.
Posted by Becky Boot Fan , Jun 02, 2009 3:33PM
Gianna Michaels as Maria Bartiromo.
Posted by miami , Jun 02, 2009 3:33PM
Are Miley Cyrus and Lindsay still available?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:37PM
Kim Kardashian as Maria Bartiromo...
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:40PM
Sasha Grey can save this movie
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:47PM
Doogie Howser as Timothy Geithner
Posted by AndrewInGreenwich , Jun 02, 2009 3:48PM
Word on the street is that Bess Levin is in talks with Stone to play to the part of the Gekko's sultry daughter.
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 02, 2009 3:49PM
@40 FTW
Also Shia sucks, this plot sounds like a borefest of the highest order. Perhaps its Stone's revenge for quasi-inadvertently making Wall Street so sexy with the original, he's now going to emasculate all of us with the 2nd...
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:52PM
@42, thats actually a good choice. Geithner looks like he's smoked pole a few times in his life.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:53PM
"It was Alpha, Alpha was their treasure!"
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:54PM
@29 Actually, I'm hung like a horse...suck it.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:55PM
This movie sounds like whitesploitation to me!
My picks:
Shoshana Lonstein or Sasha Grey
or
any black female over 400bills
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:57PM
This movie sounds like whitesploitation to me!
My picks:
Shoshana Lonstein or Sasha Grey
or
any black female over 400bills
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:59PM
Sasha Grey, lol.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 3:59PM
Everybody tells you they hate the upper East Side. They wanna live on the West Side. But believe me, when it's resale time, the East Side moves all the time. I mean what do you got on the West Side? Sean and Madonna?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:01PM
Steve Buscemi as Tim Geithner...
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:01PM
Steve Buscemi as Tim Geithner...
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:01PM
Shia LaBeouf as Andrew Ross Sorkin
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter as Phil Falcone
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:03PM
Tom Sizemore as Charlie Gasparino
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:07PM
Sacha Baron Cohen as Vikram Pandit.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:07PM
No matter how horrid Wall Street 2 is going to be, it will be better than this travesty.
Untitled Oliver Stone/Hugo Chavez Documentary (2009) (filming) (producer)
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:07PM
Natalie Portman
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:08PM
@57 Str82DVD
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:09PM
Natalie Portman
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:10PM
Natalie Portman
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:14PM
Vijay Singh as Vikram Pandit
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:15PM
HP: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
KL: Sir?
HP: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
KL: I don't know. I couldn't say.
HP: Call it.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:24PM
Michael Cera as Gordon's daughter
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:31PM
Shia, huh? Clearly Greg Louganis was unavailable. This movie will bomb.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:32PM
@51 a true devotee. +1
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:34PM
Susan Boyle can play the hot daughter and Shia will still be punching above his weight.
Posted by NegativeConvexity , Jun 02, 2009 4:35PM
I have heard whispers from a reliable source that Samuel L Jackson will be playing the role of Warren Buffett in this upcoming masterpiece.
Excerpted dialogue as follows:
L. Blankfein - "Mr Buffett, would you be interested in taking an equity stake in GS?"
Buffett - "Excuse me, mothafucka. What shit did yo bitch-ass just come at me wit?"
B. Trott - "Uh, Mr Buffett, he was actually saying a 10% preferred, not common..."
Buffett - "and......?"
B. Trott - "And warrants too, Mr Buffett!!"
Buffett- "Check out the big brain on Trott. That's right, bitches, and warrants, you punk ass biyatches. Yo better hook me up with some off-the-chain warrants. Blankfein, you punk ass bitch!!"
Posted by trojan , Jun 02, 2009 4:42PM
olivia wilde as the bisexual daughter.
megan fox as Lepoof's competition.
sexual tension ensues.
discuss.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:44PM
the only thing that can save this movie is two starlets a la final scene in Requeim For A Dream
Calgreedy
Posted by Bulging Bracket , Jun 02, 2009 4:51PM
trojan you have a future in Hollywood! pure genius!
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:53PM
I thought he had a little son in the original movie..remember the scene around the pool. Anyways, it's already starting to sound lame.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 4:56PM
Liz Claman as Charlie Sheen's hottie financial t.v. anchor affair. Just want to see her in a nude scene and I"m good
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 5:43PM
@73
AMEN, my brotha
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 5:53PM
Too Teldar, didn't paper..
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 6:22PM
At the very least Meredith Whitney would bring cankles to the sequel.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 8:28PM
GUYS GUYS!
This kind of thing happens on Wall Street ALL THE TIME.
Right?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2009 8:35PM
@68 i laughed out loud
Posted by guest , Jun 03, 2009 10:47AM
Jesse Ventura as Paulson
Posted by guest , Jun 03, 2009 10:51AM
Michelle Pfeifer as Darryl Hannah after 20 years.