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With the hysteria against banking still raging on, Hollywood and filmmakers around the world have been trying to cash in on financial thrillers lately.

First was Oliver Stone's Money Never Sleeps, and well we all know how that came out. Next up was Krach, a french movie which looked a little better but might leave us wanting. (Has anybody here seen it by the way?) Then there’s The last days of Lehman, HBO’s upcoming Too big to fail, etcetera, etcetera.

Not exactly tour de force productions I know, but after a few misses it looks like we might have a winner here with Michael Ohoven’s upcoming film; Arbitrage.


Set in the Big Apple, the movie revolves around a high flying hedge fund manager played by Al Pacino who’s desperately trying to sell his firm after suffering massive losses. Frantic to close the sale before his fraud is uncovered...
Variety:
“An unexpected, bloody error forces him to turn to the most unlikely corner for help.”

His wife is to be played by Academy award winner Susan Sarandon while her art dealer mistress will be played by sexy Bond girl Eva Green.

Granted, with production set to start early next year it’s way too early to judge how this would play out, but with the base storyline so far and a great cast we all know could deliver, I’m sure this would be interesting.

So move over Shia, and take your uber trading skills with you. I think we might just have a worthy successor to Gordon Gekko’s throne here.

 
Best Response

This movie looks like absolute garbage. I mean the plot looks iffy, but combined with that liberal leaning cast, and I won't hold my breath. Hollywood needs to either make a gritty and completely true wall street film like Traffic was for drugs, or something high flying and entertaining like 21. Perhaps I have a biased opinion, but anything that movie that involves fraud and Wall Street is going to be politically motivated or at least have the viewer predisposed to the notion and it will affect the viewing experience. I have seen parts of WS2 and it would have made an ok movie without all the WS placements and the clearly biased storyline...I mean think about it, we all knew it was going to highly biased and that just magnified the smallest anti-Wallstreet lines in the movie...lines we would never have had a problem with in any other film.

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 
Gekko21:
This movie looks like absolute garbage. I mean the plot looks iffy, but combined with that liberal leaning cast, and I won't hold my breath. Hollywood needs to either make a gritty and completely true wall street film like Traffic was for drugs, or something high flying and entertaining like 21. Perhaps I have a biased opinion, but anything that movie that involves fraud and Wall Street is going to be politically motivated or at least have the viewer predisposed to the notion and it will affect the viewing experience. I have seen parts of WS2 and it would have made an ok movie without all the WS placements and the clearly biased storyline...I mean think about it, we all knew it was going to highly biased and that just magnified the smallest anti-Wallstreet lines in the movie...lines we would never have had a problem with in any other film.

I see your point man and I completely agree that the anti-Wall Street undertones which this might have will be magnified for us but I guess I'm just a little optimistic that Pacino would kill it as a hedge funder. Was thinking he plays it somewhere between John Milton and Micheal Corleone. Producer seems legit as well but I can't comment on the director.

And yeah, Margin call looks alright too.

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people Jeremy
 

There is also a movie called Margin Call coming out that sounds promising. Their 'Bud Fox' is played by Penn Badgley (guy from Gossip Girl). They've also got Zachary Quinto (Spock in the recent Star Trek), Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany, Demi Moore and others...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_Call

"The film takes place over a 24 hour period at a large investment bank and focuses on the financial crisis of 2007–2010. The film follows the actions taken by a group of employees during the financial collapse."

 

I'm admittedly confused as to who they hope the audience for these movies will be.

Bankers and other people in the industry will a) not have time b) not give a shit or c) not want to sit through 2 hours of having their profession trashed

People not in the industry must enjoy going just so they can say "Look, I told you Wall Street was crooked. Thats why my Dad's bees wax outlet and auto care center went out of business"

I guess the fact is reality is never as entertaining as this nonsense and fuck whatever Actually happens.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 
jmdude:
Dude, if this gets made into a movie I would be so impressed:

Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions

Kevin Spacey owns the rights and I would love to see this get made (hence my 21 comment).

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 

I didn't read the entire post and am sure people said this, but this is going to be one of those watered down movies representing only a fraction of the real wall street. Still, there are so few wall st movies I'd watch this, or others, just because they are a rarity.

 

I saw Krach (in France, sorry futuretrader)... general consensus is that it could've been pretty good if it hadn't been made by the French. Worth watching, certainly had an interesting premise, but at the same time, either due to my mild incompetency in French or the fact that it was French at all, some of it was just weird. Chick turns him down, agrees to help five seconds later, they are skydiving five seconds later, they are fucking five seconds later. I know how I'm gonna pick people up from now on...

"I don't know how else to put this, but... we're over." "Okay. I disagree."
 
Barcadia:
did anybody see floored? or the inside job?

Floored was great and a must watch if you can find it. I'll skip inside job.

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 

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People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people Jeremy

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