Richard Gere Talks Sundance Film Arbitrage, Julia Roberts

First Published: January 23, 2012 9:10 PM EST Credit: Getty Premium LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Richard Gere walks the red carpet during the 6th International Rome Film Festival in Rome, Italy, on November 3, 2011Richard Gere has one of the most buzzed about movies at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival with Arbitrage, and he hopes the project will have an impact with a wider audience. Its going to resonate with [the Bernie] Madoff [scandal] and a lot of other problems weve had with the morality of our money system, Richard told Access Hollywood correspondent Tim Vincent. The film takes its name from a type of trading, the actor said. Its actually, its a way to make money, Richard said, when Tim asked about the title. You buy small and you sell heavy and its a very computerized thing. It has to be done in milliseconds to make money. This is a story about a guy whos made a lot of money from that game. Richard famously played corporation trader Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman, but he said the only thing Edward and his Arbitrage character, Robert Miller, have in common is being in the world of business. He was a corporate raider. This guys not a corporate raider. Its more conceptual what this guy does. Money itself, isnt an object, its in the digital world. Theres nothing you can hold on to any more, its always moving, he said. Like his Pretty Woman, character, Robert Miller is popular with the ladies, even the ones he doesnt hire, and when talk turned to women, Tim asked if Richard would like to reunite with Julia Roberts on the big screen. Of course, Richard said. Shes a lot older than me, so I dont know if its gonna work, he joked. Copyright 2012 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.