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===Development=== After the success of ''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]'' (1986), Oliver Stone wanted film school friend and [[Los Angeles]] screenwriter [[Stanley Weiser]] to research and write a screenplay about [[quiz show scandals]] in the 1950s.<ref name="Weiser 2008">{{cite news |last=Weiser |first=Stanley |title=Repeat After Me: Greed is Not Good |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 5, 2008 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-05-ca-wallstreet5-story.html |access-date=October 17, 2008 |url-access=limited}}</ref> During a story conference, Stone suggested making a film about Wall Street instead. Stone pitched the premise of two investment partners getting involved in questionable financial dealings, using each other, and they are tailed by a prosecutor as in ''[[Crime and Punishment]]''.<ref name="Weiser 2008"/> Stone had been thinking about this kind of a film as early as 1981<ref name="Riordan 1996">{{cite book |last=Riordan |first=James |title=Stone: A Biography of Oliver Stone |publisher=Aurum Press |location=New York |date=1996 |isbn=978-1-85410-444-1}}{{page needed|date=October 2023}}</ref> and was inspired by his father, Lou Stone, a broker during the [[Great Depression]] at [[Hayden Stone]].<ref name="Demos 2007">{{cite news |last=Demos |first=Telis |title=Oliver Stone: Life after ''Wall Street'' |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |date=September 21, 2007 |url=https://money.cnn.com/2007/09/20/news/newsmakers/oliver_stone.fortune/index.htm |access-date=December 10, 2008}}</ref> Stone knew a New York businessman who was making millions and working long days putting together deals all over the world. This man started making mistakes that cost him everything. Stone remembers that the "story frames what happens in my movie, which is basically a ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress|Pilgrim's Progress]]'' of a boy who is seduced and corrupted by the allure of easy money. And in the third act, he sets out to redeem himself".<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> Stone asked Weiser to read ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'', but Weiser found that its story did not mix well with their own. Stone then asked Weiser to read ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' for material that they could use, but it was not the right fit either.<ref name="Weiser 2008"/> Weiser had no prior knowledge of the financial world and immersed himself in researching the world of stock trading, [[junk bond]]s, and corporate takeovers. He and Stone spent three weeks visiting [[brokerage firm|brokerage houses]] and interviewing investors.<ref name="Weiser 2008"/>
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