Remember Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic? The long-gestating project concerning the famous American entertainer (huge through the 1950s-1970s) who fought with his alleged homosexuality his entire life, starring Michael Douglas? Matt Damon told the Las Vegas Sun (appropriate, considering that’s where Liberace revived/sustained his career more than once) [via The Playlist] there’s still a future for the controversial film:

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The past few months have oddly been filled with mid-life crisis films. At the center of them are narcissistic, yet somewhat likeable, leads. Both the fantastic Greenberg and the excellent Up in The Air met that said criteria. Solitary Man takes it to the next level. That’s not to say it’s a better film, but it definitely pushes the envelope a bit further in the terms of having a questionable protagonist.

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Those of us expecting Oliver Stone‘s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps on April 23 will have to wait. THR is reporting that Fox has bumped its release to September 24.

The long-anticipated sequel to Wall Street is a star-studded affair, featuring the likes of Shia LaBeouf, Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, and Oscar darling and new favorite Carey Mulligan.

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A new international trailer for Oliver Stone‘s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Ferlito and Charlie Sheen has been released at Sun TV. You can view the new trailer here.

Plot: Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated. Looking to repair his damaged relationship with his daughter, Gekko forms an alliance with her fiancé Jacob (Shia LaBeouf), and Jacob begins to see him as a father figure. But Jacob learns the hard way that Gekko – still a master manipulator and player – is after something very different from redemption.

The new trailer gives much more of the plot of the film. We see more of LaBeouf’s relationship with Gekko’s daughter which the original trailer did not give us. This trailer does get me more excited for this film. I was a huge fan of the original film and I can’t wait to see what Stone has planned for the film.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps hits theaters April 23rd.

What do you think of the new trailer?

Last year we got Single and Serious men, while the Solitary one got lost in the shuffle after it’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere. Five months later, Anchor Bay has picked up the Knockaround Guys Brian Koppelman and David Levien‘s Solitary Man. The film stars Michael Douglas, Jesse Eisenberg, Susan Sarandon, Mary-Louise Parker, Danny DeVito, and Jenna Fischer. It is also scored by the great Clint Mansell (The Fountain, Moon) and Michael Penn. Koppelman wrote the script as well, about a car magnate whose personal and professional life cracks up because of his business and romantic indiscretions. He also wrote Walking Tall, Oceans 13 and The Girlfriend Experience.

With everyone involved I definitely want to check it out, but the fact that it didn’t get picked up right away is a little disconcerting. If it’s half as great as A Single Man or A Serious Man, I’ll be happy.

Solitary Man will get a theatrical release, date unknown for now.

Does A Solitary Man sound interesting to you?

We posted some new photos yesterday and now the trailer for Oliver Stone‘s Wall Street sequel, Money Never Sleeps has crept up on IMDb. The film stars Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Ferlito and Charlie Sheen. Click the image below to check out the intense bass-filled, dialogue light trailer (as no embed is available yet). Read the full story

Because, admit it, you were a little more than curious about what this all would look like. Michael Douglas back as the cutthroat Gordon Gecko two decades later with Shia LeBeouf as his new fresh meat in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. And is that a blind Frank Langella?

These photos come courtesy of /Film.

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The New York Times ( via The Playlist) had an interview with Oliver Stone in which he discussed his sequel Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, set to start filming this week in New York City.  Stone revealed two casting tidbits that were previously unknown at the time.  The first is that Josh Brolin will be in the film as the main villain, described as the head of an investment bank in the Times article, but The Playlist describes him as the “hedge fund antagonist” for the picture.  The other piece of casting news was somewhat expected but never confirmed, that Charlie Sheen will reprise his role in the sequel as his character Bud Fox from the original in a cameo.  At the end of the first film his character helped get Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko be put in jail by wearing a wire, and who at the end was seen entering the courthouse for his own sentencing, one would assume that this film will clear up what happened at the end of the first, and how his cameo ties into Gekko being in the film, who according to Stone has been released from prison.

Also starring Shia LaBeouf in the lead as Jake Moore, a young man who is the fiancé of Gekko’s daughter and who is getting into the world of finance himself, its expected the movie will deal with Gekko trying to influence him in this corporate world, and how he may corrupt him.  The movie also features Susan Sarandon as Moore’s mother, Frank Langella as his mentor, and Carey Mulligan as his fiancé, and Gekko’s daughter.  The movie was written by Allen Loeb, and the will be released next year by 20th Century Fox, who distributed the original film in 1987.

I recently watched Wall Street for the first time this weekend, and I thought that the movie was fairly mediocre and felt like it wouldn’t be of much interest to those who have no knowledge of Wall Street, like myself.  I am however curious to see how a sequel would play out, especially with today’s financial crisis and the themes that the film could cultivate from that.  I think Josh Brolin is a terrific actor and I would see him in anything, and casting Charlie Sheen, even for just a cameo, could be a good way to tie the two films together, even with the already cast Michael Douglas reprising his role.  Whether Stone can make a film better than the original however remains to be seen, but in my eyes I don’t feel like it would be that difficult of a task.

What do you think of the casting news for Wall Street 2?

Variety is reporting that Frank Langella is in talks to play the role of Lewis Zabel in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. Langella joins the already star-packed cast of Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas. Langella’s character is a “old-time broker who mentors LaBeouf’s character, a young Wall Street broker names Jacob.” The plot of the film is “Gekko, having spent 14-years in prison for insider trading and security fraud, now making the lecture circuit as a published financial author. He mentors Jacob in hopes to reconnect with his daughter Winnie, Jacob’s wife.” Carey Mulligan is in talks to play Winnie and Josh Brolin is in negotiations for a role in the film as well. Production is set to start next month and a release is planned for the first quarter of 2010.

I got a chance to watch the original Wall Street last month for the first time and thought it was phenomenal. It is too bad that Charlie Sheen is not returning but having Gekko back is more than I could ask for. The film does seem like it is being rushed and I really hope that doesn’t hurt it in the end. Oliver Stone is a great director when it comes to films like Wall Street. Bringing politics, business,and greed into a Stone film is always a good time.

Are you looking forward to Wall Street 2?