Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) on Netflix
Out of prison, Gordon Gekko promotes a book warning of financial disaster. His estranged daughter Winnie and her fiancé Jake Moore, a young Wall Street trader, are drawn into the crisis.
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Plot summary
In 2001, Gordon Gekko walks out of prison after a sentence for securities fraud and insider trading, and nobody is there to meet him. Seven years later he is promoting Is Greed Good?, a book warning of trouble ahead for the markets. His estranged daughter Winnie runs a small nonprofit news site and is engaged to Jake Moore, a proprietary trader at Keller Zabel Investments and protégé of its managing director, Louis Zabel. Jake raises money for Dr. Masters and a fusion research project he believes could produce abundant clean energy, and he supports his mother Sylvia, who gave up nursing to trade in residential real estate. Bretton James, head of the rival firm Churchill Schwartz, blocks a bailout as Keller Zabel's shares fall.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
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- Javier Bardem was in final talks to play Bretton, the "new style" Gekko of the sequel; in July 2009 it was confirmed he had turned the project down in favor of a film adaptation of the book Eat, Pray, Love with Julia Roberts.
- Shia LaBeouf said he did not know what a credit derivative, a CP, an LP or an LVC were; to prepare for the film he traded with different firms, playing with up to $1 million, and became so interested in trading that he began studying for the Series 7 Exam.
- Carey Mulligan told Oliver Stone at their first meeting that she did not want her character to be a "token girlfriend", and after he learned she had short hair and discussed having her wear a wig, she said the hairpiece stopped her feeling like herself, so Stone made an exception.
- Charlie Sheen shot his scene in one day, and Oliver Stone said it was difficult for the actor: Sheen had trouble remembering his lines and needed prodding to recall his cue in the party scene in which Gekko encounters Fox.
- Reviewers objected to an ending deemed "somewhat pat" when the film screened at Cannes, and a Fox spokesperson said that Oliver Stone had changed the ending since that Cannes screening.
- Donald Trump played a minor part in the sequel, but his scene was cut from the final version and is available on the DVD instead, because Oliver Stone considered it too "distracting" for the ending.
