Oliver Stone's "W" wasn't the total clusterfuck I thought it would be.  It's biggest problem was that it was incomplete, a rush to make it to theatres before the Bush administration was even out the door.  Furthermore, it could never succeed financially because the nation was so fucking tired of the guy.  If Stone had just waited a few years, he could have made a stronger reflection on the man and his administration.  Perhaps even a "Nixon 2", if you will. 

But Stone and his rampant ego will have none of it.  And that is why he is going back to the well for "Wall Street 2".  Variety reports that Shia LaBeouf is in talks to play the lead, "a young Wall Street trader".  Those guys are so sympathetic these days.  Of course, Michael Douglas will return as amoral financial genius Gordon Gekko and maybe this time he will actually say his immortal line, "Greed is good."*

This is going to backfire on Stone.  No one wants to see films that are about what's happening in the news.  Stone's attempt to get ahead of it by making movies before the event is even finished gives him a film that will not only be incomplete, it will be unsuccessful just as every Iraq War movie, regardless of quality (and granted, with the exception of the documentaries, they've all been pretty bad), has tanked at the box office.  Now Stone may not care about those weekend tallies, but he should care that people see his movies and if not, then it's just about ego and why should anyone indulge that?