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Oliver Stone, 63, who has just completed an update of his movie classic Wall Street, credits his late father with egging him on to make a “business movie”.

Stone, who has shot Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps with Michael Douglas and Carey Mulligan as a sequel to the 1987 film, said his dad worked in a brokerage firm. He said: “My dad wanted me to go to Wall Street but I wasn’t any good at mathematics. I tried hard to understand Enron. I read three books. I couldn’t understand a f***ing thing.”

He added: “There are so few good business movies, and Wall Street is an especially hard subject. To tell a story of financial manipulation on Wall Street is one of the hardest things you can do.”

Stone, who has created a revisionist JFK movie and a version of the September 11 attacks for the big screen, said it was politics, not money, that drew him to the Wall Street story, which coincidentally timed with the stock market crash of 1987.

His father, Louis Stone, died in 1985, and Wall Street was dedicated to him. Stone recalled: “We used to go to movies together. On the way out he’d always say, ‘How come no one can make a good business movie? They always make the businessmen idiots.’ He’d say: ‘Kiddo, you and I could have done it better’.”

Asked why he returned to his old stomping ground for the sequel, Stone said: “Because it’s important. It’s the collapse of capitalism and the collapse of our society. It is. Our way of life is going to change.”

Source: Splash News