Gordon Gekko to Return: Is Greed Still Good?

The script is in the hands of Allan Loeb, a former Chicago Board of Trade broker. Expected to draw on recent events, it follows Mr Gekko’s exploits after leaving prison. If he is to be cast once again as a villain, the mind boggles at the possibilities. A mortgage broker?

Douglas is returning to the role and as for Gekko, he says "I don't think he's much different. He's just had more time to think about what to do."

But he would need a new vocabulary. His era-defining catchphrase in the original, “Greed is good” (a misquote: it was actually “Greed—for lack of a better word—is good”), jars in these harsh times. “Greed—provided it is sufficiently regulated—is tolerable” might be more appropriate now. The studio might also want to rethink the working title, “Money Never Sleeps”; just now many people’s money is under the mattress.