{"id":1269,"date":"2008-10-13T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:07:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:07:29","slug":"wall-street-sequel-still-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/13\/wall-street-sequel-still-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"WALL STREET Sequel Still In The Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Producer Ed Pressman is continuing to push forward with his plans to make a sequel to the 1987 cautionary tale Wall Street<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Variety<\/em> is reporting that Pressman has hired 21<\/strong> scribe Alan Loeb to pen the screenplay. In addition to writing, Loeb just happens to be a licensed stockbroker who formerly worked at the Chicago Board of Trade.<\/p>\n

This is a change from the report<\/a> we ran over a year ago indicating that Pressman was developing the sequel with writer Stephen Schiff. The basic premise of both reports sounds the same- Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, from the original film) emerges from a stretch in prison to discover that the financial world is much different in nature from when he ruled it two decades ago. There’s no word if Loeb’s script is a rewrite of Schiff’s work or if it goes off on its own direction.<\/p>\n

Although Douglas is not formally attached to the project, Variety<\/em> is reporting that 20th Century Fox has fast-tracked the project’s development, no doubt in part spurred on by recent headlines. It’s nice to see that someone looks like they have a plain to make some money from this economic downturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Producer Ed Pressman is continuing to push forward with his plans to make a sequel to the 1987 cautionary tale Wall Street. Variety is reporting that Pressman has hired 21 scribe Alan Loeb to pen [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[22,817,24,816,94],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-in-development","8":"tag-michael-douglas","9":"tag-sequel","10":"tag-wall-street","11":"tag-writers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t