When Oliver Stone visited the high finance world for the follow-up to his 1987 film entitled ’Wall Street’, the director was shocked of what he witnessed. Stone described the scene as the “collapse of capitalism”.
“Why did I go back? Because it’s important. It’s the collapse of capitalism and the collapse of our society. It is. Our way of life is going to change”, the director said in an interview for the April issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker said he was utterly shocked when he went back to the finance arena.
“A million dollars had become a billion dollars. They had replaced people of substance with people who made money. The Volckers had become the Greenspans”, the director said.
But Stone’s aim is to always tell an entertaining story, and he finds the story of “financial manipulation on Wall Street” as something difficult to tell.
Stone’s ’Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’, will open in the US on 23 April. The film stars Michael Douglas, who will return as Gordon Gekko, the insider trader. His character, who gets out of jail, wants to enter a game set during the period of a sinking global economy.
Shia LaBeouf of ‘Transformers’ is also part of the film as an energy company analyst for two Wall Street firms.
Stone said it was his father who urged him years ago to make a film about Wall Street. “But I wasn’t any good at mathematics”, the director commented. “I tried hard to understand Enron. I read three books. I couldn’t understand a … thing”.
