Michael Douglas earned an Oscar for his portrayal of cutthroat corporate raider Gordon Gekko.  Douglas, along with original producer Edward R. Pressman, brought a draft of the script to Oliver Stone’s attention last March.

“I loved it,” Stone says. “It hooked me. I had passed on the original script by another writer about a year before, but that was before the crash happened. A lot has gone on since.”

While Charlie Sheen’s Bud Fox puts in a cameo, his protege role has been usurped by Shia La Beouf as an ambitious hedge-funder who is engaged to Gekko’s estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan of An Education).

There are more pictures at USA Today of Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach and Michael Doughlas.