Backup Plan if (when) WS2:$NS Bombs

We’re short on Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.

We think the Shia “Not Dewey &” LeBoeuf casting is a recipe for disaster.So we were pleasantly surprised by this news from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood.

Jeremy Irons is the final piece of an impressive cast for Margin Call, the indie film by director JC Chandor that is shooting in New York City. Irons is the chief executive of a financial firm in a 24-hour period during the first signs of the near collapse on Wall Street. Irons joins Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci and Mary McDonnell. Chandor wrote the script, and Quinto is producing with his Before The Door Pictures partners Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa, and Benaroya Pictures’ Michael Benaroya and Robert Ogden Barnum and Joe Jenckes. Myriad Pictures is selling international territories on the film, with Myriad CEO Kirk D’Amico exec producing. The film is three weeks into its shoot.

We’d really like to see something that handles the financial crisis in an informative and entertaining manner.

Goodness knows “The Last Days of Lehman Brothers” was a disaster.  Harvey Miller only had about two scenes in that dramatization of the fateful September weekend, but at least the guy who played him looked enough like Miller that you could tell who it was.  Unless you’re an obsessive CNBC watcher, some of the casting was absolutely horrible.  I’m looking at you Dick Fuld.

BBC also did a straight documentary (as opposed to the CNBC dramatization), but we haven’t seen that yet.  Is it any good?  Miller is in that as well.

Anyway, a cast of Claus von Bulow, Verbal Kint, the psycho sexually harassing boss from Disclosure, Sylar, Jennifer Connolly’s husband, Dan Humphrey, The Mentalist, an Adrian Monk impersonator, and Stands with a Fist has all the makings of a winner in our book.

Tagged as: bankruptcy, harvey miller, lehman brothers, movies, weil gotshal