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Oliver (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, et al.) Stone is at work on his latest film, a sequel to his first post-Platoon movie, Wall Street, which came out late in 1987. That movie, in which Michael Douglas starred as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko, won critical and popular acclaim, and a Best Actor Oscar for Douglas. Charlie Sheen, who had the lead in Platoon, starred opposite Douglas as a young, hungry stockbroker.

Douglas will reprise his role in the new movie, which Stone says will try to capture the greedy Wall Street culture prior to the most recent economic unpleasantness, as the first film did with that mid-eighties Wall Street milieu.

“When Gekko comes out of prison in the beginning of this movie, he essentially has to redefine himself, redefine his character,” Stone said in a Sept. 9 The New York Times interview. “He’s looking for that second chance.” The on-line component of the NYT article includes a video of Stone talking about the films.