With Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps due in cinemas soon, Oliver Stone is now turning his attention to future projects and one he seems very interested in directing is a movie based on Don Winslow’s upcoming book, Savages.
According to Deadline Hollywood, “In Savages, two pals from Laguna Beach pals share the same girlfriend and a thriving business growing and distributing the best-quality pot on the planet. When they resist being muscled by a Mexican drug cartel, the girl is kidnapped and the ransom is every cent they’ve made for the last five years. They agree to pay but hatch an alternate plan to get her back, get revenge, and then get lost.”
This would suggest that Stone’s planned film about Pablo Escobar has been put on the backburner, but that he still wants to follow up his Wall Street sequel with a movie about drugs.
Author Winslow will handle the first versions of the script while Stone finishes his Gordon Gekko movie, with the director working on the screenplay after that. Oliver certainly must believe in the book, as rather than getting a studio to buy the rights for him, he purchased them himself, a move that’s becoming more popular with directors as it gives them more control over the film as it heads towards production.