The newer film is as close to a remake of the original as it can be without technically qualifying as such.

The problem, it seems, is that both of them are based on a real crime that happened in the '80s, in which a bunch of young investment bankers hit upon a get-rich-quick scheme that seems to have ended in a murder.

The 1987 version of "The Billionaire Boys Club" was a high-profile, big-budget miniseries on NBC (back when those were still a thing) that credited Greg Critser and Sue Walton among its writers, thanks to the articles they wrote about the crime.

The 2018 version was a big-screen feature that only credited its scriptwriters -- Captain Mauzner ("Factory Girl," 2006) and "Wonderland's" (2003) James Cox (who also directed).

Thus the new film isn't a remake of the old series, but rather another telling of the same story. There are no direct links between the two versions -- not in the producing staff, at least.

But they did have one cast member in common: Judd Nelson. He was the star of the first version, rising financial whiz kid Joe Hunt, and in the 2018 version, he played Hunt's father.

That and, as you point out, the title are the only nods that the new version makes to the original miniseries.

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