Sheen spent 45 minutes on the actual trading floor, with real brokers playing themselves. — Brian Koppelman
Stone told Premier Magazine the moving camera was meant to become the predator in a movie about sharks. — Brian Koppelman
The shoot took 53 days, seven days ahead of schedule and close to $2 million under budget, because of a coming director strike. — Brian Koppelman
Consultant Ken Lipper got the actors into Solomon Brothers, the 21 Club and the New York Stock Exchange, and sits next to Douglas at 21 in the movie. — Brian Koppelman
Fox wanted Warren Beatty for Gecko, who wasn't interested; Stone wanted Richard Gear, who passed during a stretch of bad movies. — Brian Koppelman
Gear would have been good and looked great, as in Internal Affairs, but he does slow burn rather than the verbal pyrotechnics Douglas studies. — Brian Koppelman
Beatty holds months of conversations and then says no, as he did to Goldman on Misery. — Brian Koppelman
Gere's "I got nowhere else to go!" is praised, from a movie producer Craig has definitely never seen. — Brian Koppelman
An internet claim that Pacino turned down Gecko in a 1992 Barbara Walters interview is called bullshit; the guess is that his agent passed on a script Pacino never really wanted. — Brian Koppelman
Tom Cruise wanted Bud Fox and lobbied Stone, who was committed to Charlie; they later made Born on the Fourth of July. — Brian Koppelman
Stone gets chippy on the commentary about Bright Lights, Big City shooting at the same time; Michael J. Fox was a miscast there and Downey Jr. would have been a home run. — Brian Koppelman
Per Stone, Hannah was not happy in the role and he should have let her go; Sean Young almost got fired and a Bud affair storyline was cut. — Brian Koppelman
The beach scene where Daryl Hannah's voice was looped is rough, including her wish for a Turner, a perfect canary diamond and world peace. — Brian Koppelman
Daryl Hannah is called miscast and bad; the counterpoint is that it's always the writing, citing the Laura Ashley furniture line. — Brian Koppelman
In the research, Hannah and Stone didn't get along and Sean Young told Stone in front of her that she should play the part; in Premiere, Stone admitted being tough with her and making her cry, which would not have aged well in 2020. — Brian Koppelman
Old-school directors slapped actresses to get performances, recalling a Belushi sketch; Hoffman slapping Merrill Streep on Kramer versus Kramer is cited as a big deal she still held a grudge about decades later. — Brian Koppelman
Conclusion: the character aged the worst because it is not a good character. — Brian Koppelman
The Dave Winfield reference, Gecko's two-inch handheld TV and his gigantic cell phone, apparently the first in a movie, narrowly ahead of Sir Larry's on the yacht. — Brian Koppelman
A Twitter question about who carried out Darian's furniture plan gets Shabby Sheik as the answer. — Brian Koppelman
Blue Star's lead union rep is cheesy, out of a Fantasy Island episode, while the flight attendants' rep is good. — Brian Koppelman
The sequel was a little better on rewatch but still not great; the wish is that Wall Street existed without it, though Shia LaBuff is good. — Brian Koppelman
Indoor smoking is proposed as aged-worst but the other host is pro indoor smoking; Gecko lighting a cigar inside took one host out of it. — Brian Koppelman
