Wall Street 2: Michael Douglas Returns For Sequel

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Michael Douglas will reprise his role as Gordon Gekko, the ruthless corporate raider whose rise and fall came to symbolise Eighties excess in Wall Street 2.

A sequel to Stone’s 1987 original has long been on the cards, but the meltdown of the world’s financial markets has given the scriptwriters a wealth of source material. “We need to keep the storyline under wraps, but it’s literally ripped from today’s headlines,” said a spokesman for the movie studio, 20th Century Fox.

Douglas won an Oscar for his performance as Gekko, whose declaration that “lunch is for wimps” became a catchphrase for City boys.

Wall Street 2 will go into production this summer and is scheduled for release in 2010. New York, London and Dubai will feature as locations.

Charlie Sheen, who played an ambitious stockbroker in the first film, will not return. Instead, Shia LaBeouf is in talks to join the cast as the younger character who becomes Gekko’s apprentice.

Posted on April 30, 2009 | Filed Under Movies