Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

In 2001, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is released from prison. Gekko served eight years for insider trading, and when he walks through the gates of the prison, he is alone. Seven years later, as the global economy takes a nosedive, young Wall Street trader Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), learns first hand the devastating effect a drop in share price can have on those invested in a company. Moore teams up with his fiancée’s estranged father, Gekko, to not only take revenge on the company that destroyed his mentor, but to also warn the world of the upcoming financial crisis. It seems that releasing a sequel to films years after the first one is something that Hollywood is banking on for success… If you’ll pardon the pun. Toy Story 3 was released 11 years after it’s predecessor, Tron: Legacy is on the way, 28 years after Jeff Bridges first ventured into … There’s more

Darren’s Movie News 30/04/09

There’s a few very interesting bits of news today, methinks, but before that, don’t forget we’re all off to Cineworld on Parnell Street to see Crank 2 tonight at 6.30. Come along. More info here. In very exciting news, Oliver Stone is talking about the sequel to the iconic 80′s flick Wall Street. Michael Douglas has signed on to reprise the role of Gordon Gecko and it looks like Shia LeBoeuf will play a young broker trying to deal with the current economic meltdown. No word on Sheen as of yet. Wall Street is still one of the greatest films ever made and with the world’s economy as it is at the moment, Gordon Gecko could be the very character to epitomise all that we have grown to hate about the CEO’s and bankers who are getting off scott free. What do you think? Excited to see Gecko again? In … There’s more