Oliver Stone has revealed that he never had any plans to make a Wall Street sequel.
The original movie was released back in 1987, earning Michael Douglas a Best Actor Oscar, but Stone had no intention of taking the project further until he was given a script.
In an interview with Empire he said: "I had really not wanted to do a sequel. But then the crash happened, and the producer of the original movie came to me with a screenplay that I liked, which really addresses the issue of the crash. It started with Gordon Gekko getting out of jail and it hooked me.
"And it has this three-generation structure which I really liked. Gordon is in his sixties, Josh Brolin’s is in his forties and we have Shia’s character in his twenties.
"Carey Mulligan plays Shia’s fiancee and Gordon’s daughter. So she’s really the hook. The question is, I suppose, how does Gordon get back into the game? He’s an ex-con so it’s very hard. How he does it is very tricky and very surprising."
It's been a quiet couple of years for Stone with just W, a biopic picture if George W Bush, under his belt.
But Wall Street: MOney Never Sleeps brings together a great cast of Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan and Frank Langella.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is released 23rd April.
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