Wall Street

Every dream has a price.
Wall Street (1987)
Timing: 2:6 (126 min)
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Budget
$15 000 000
Box office
$43 848 069
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Director
Scenario
Oliver Stone, Stanley Weiser
Producer
Edward R. Pressman
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Composer
Audition
Billy Hopkins

Short description

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.

What's left behind the scenes

  • Gordon Gekko talks on a Motorola DynaTac 8000X mobile phone – the world's first cellular phone.
  • Initially, director and screenwriter Oliver Stone included a plotline involving an affair between Charlie Sheen's Fox and the wife of Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas (which explained Gekko's attitude toward Fox in the final confrontation), but he was forced to abandon the idea due to the personal mutual dislike between Sheen and actress Sean Young, who was cast as Kate Gekko.
  • The working title of the film was "Greed."
  • Tom Cruise wanted to play the role of Bud Fox, but by that time Oliver Stone had already decided to cast Charlie Sheen.
  • Initially, director and screenwriter Oliver Stone introduced a storyline into the script involving a romance between Fox, played by Charlie Sheen, and the wife of Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas (and this circumstance explained Gekko's attitude towards Fox in the final confrontation), but was forced to abandon this idea due to the mutual dislike between Sheen and the actress Sean Young, who played Kate Gekko.
  • Actor Martin Sheen, who played Carl Fox, Bud Fox's father, is Charlie Sheen's real father.
  • The first feature film to show a character talking on a cell phone.
  • Richard Gere and Warren Beatty were originally considered for the role of Gordon Gekko, ultimately played by Michael Douglas.
  • Actor Martin Sheen, who played Carl Fox, Bud Fox's father, is Charlie Sheen's real-life father.
  • Tom Cruise wanted to play the role of Bud Fox, but Oliver Stone had already decided to cast Charlie Sheen.
  • Richard Gere and Warren Beatty were originally considered for the role of Gordon Gekko, which was ultimately played by Michael Douglas.

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