‘Wall Street 2′ a modern parable of greed, says Oliver Stone

[HMG Celebrity News] – Oliver Stone is among the most controversial directors currently working, but his movies make serious money. And ‘Wall Street 2,’ which opens on Friday, is surely next on that list.

The 64-year old three-time Oscar winner tells the Huff Post he regards the new movie — the first sequel he’s ever made — to be a ‘book=end’ to the 1987 original which made Charlie Sheen a bankable star. And his desire to make it was fueled by the financial crisis that so badly injured the country he loves.

“What bankers were doing was unbelievable! They pulled off the biggest heist of all time — and they got billions in the bailout!” he explained.

Stone has been tempted to make a sequel before, but the scripts just didn’t inspire him. Then the economy hit the skids and things really changed;

“You had these hedge-fund guys taking Gekko’s old game and finding new ways to make money.” Stone explains. “Then the banks took that game and made it their own.”

And Oliver’s hatred of this is shown in a reworking of one of Michael Douglas’ best lines from the first film;

“I once said greed is good,” he tells a class of college students. “Now it seems it’s legal.”

The whole economic implosion is sharply retold in the new film; From a commercial bank that collapses to intense meetings at the Federal Reserve. Even Charlie Sheen makes a brief appearance, proving how Wall Street’s unchecked feeding frenzy turned Bud Fox into just another greed-driven schmuck.

The film’s hero Jacob Moore [played by Shia LaBeouf,] has more integrity and more idealism than Bud. But in today’s Wall Street. that could also be his greatest flaw.

In closing, Oliver was asked how he’d sum up the new movie:

“It’s about love and trust, and greed and betrayal,” he says. “How do you stay a human being when that much money’s involved?”

You can see Oliver’s attempt at an answer when Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps’ opens nationwide on Friday…