I wasn't sure Javier Bardem would ever play another villain after scaring the hell out of everyone in No Country for Old Men. He makes a pretty great Spanish heartthrob, after all, and that role must be a whole lot easier to play. But Nikki Finke is not only reporting that Bardem has signed on as the main villain of Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2, but she's also got the entire plot typed out. Ready to find out what Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko will do with Shia LaBeouf's young trader character? Read on!

Finke confirms that LaBeouf, who is reported to be "in negotiations," will co-star with Douglas as a young trader who is engaged to Gekko's estranged daughter. Gekko, who has just finished serving a long prison sentence, is trying to warn his Wall Street colleagues that the bottom if about to fall out of the business (the film starts in June 2008 and ends about a year later). When Shia's mentor is killed and he suspects a worldwide hedge fund manager (Bardem) is the killer, he teams up with Gekko in exchange for reuniting the older man with his daughter. And that's how pretty young innocent Shia starts learning that old mantra "Greed is good."

When we first learned of a potential Wall Street sequel back in 2007, it seemed worse than a bad idea; it seemed irrelevant. But the longer this economic crisis goes on, and the more it becomes clear that the Captains of Industry we put in charge are the ones who got us, the more I think Gordon Gekko might be welcome again. And with LaBeouf and Bardem on board, Oliver Stone will be working with a cast that's hard to refuse. Finke says the movie starts filming in August, and the script may undergo some tinkering before then. I'll be waiting anxiously to see how it all turns out.