'Wall Street 2': Josh Brolin as Villain, Charlie Sheen Will Cameo

Oliver Stone's sequel to his classic '80s tale of slick, money-hungry stockbrokers, Wall Street, is racking up quite the cast. Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps already has Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, Michael Douglas, and arthouse It Girl Carey Mulligan (An Education) signed up for a 21st century take on greed on whether or not it's good (answer: probs not). But the big rumor all summer has been that Josh Brolin will take over the role of the villain after Javier Bardem turned down the role.

Well, as our buddies over at the esteemed website The Playlist point out, in this weekend's New York Times Oliver Stone casually confirms the rumors that Josh Brolin will indeed be playing the villain, and Charlie Sheen will be popping up in a cameo as his character from the original, Bud Fox.

Now that the real Wall Street and its counterparts around the world have felt the collective shudder of the past year's financial implosion, Stone is hoping to show some hope for redemption for Gekko.

"In his first run at Wall Street, Mr. Stone produced characters and a portrayal that lived longer than he ever expected and with unintended consequences. But he never would have made a second version if it didn't appear that the system, and high finance, had finally been brought to its knees.

'We wouldn't have done this movie in 2006,' he said. "'Things were too loose. I didn't want to glorify pigs.'"

I'm not sure that now is really the time to show how a character like Gekko can be redeemed when even now stockbrockers are still offering Douglas fist-bumps in restaurants and mouthing his lines from the original movie on the trading floor, but perhaps every deserves a shot at making things right. Then again, W. came out hot on the heels of the election, and it could be argued that one of the reasons its box office earnings were so lackluster was election burnout. Will people really want to watch the woes of rich people when sometimes it's hard enough just budgeting for a night out to the movies?