Monday, June 08, 2009

Credit Where Credit Is Due

Nikki Finke has the scoop on Wall Street 2. Just the idea of a sequel is bad enough, but this sounds excruciating:

--a reformed Gordon Gekko, out of jail and trying to make things right with his daughter.

--an evil hedge fund manager who drives people to suicide.

--and in the Charlie Sheen role...Shia LaBeouf. (Is LaBeouf going to be a sop to the younger generation in every film where they try to revive a major actor in a role he made famous a generation ago?)

Who knows? Maybe I'll be surprised. My expectation are so low it won't take much.

But I do have one suggestion. If the film is about the evils of greed--indeed, if any Hollywood film has that theme--then let's list how much everyone made next to their name in the credits.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think even Hollywood could do a great film about Wall Street showing the industry to be full absolutely deplorable human beings who are absolutely necessary to the functioning of society where decent folk live

8:02 AM, June 08, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You think so? I've never seen a Hollywood movie pull that off before.

12:18 PM, June 08, 2009  

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