![]() The unlikely ex-CIA security expert Mark Wahlberg plays is also a real person, who was an even odder character than the one in the film. That character is one of the many strange-but-true aspects of the film. The cast also includes Timothy Hutton as Getty’s coldly efficient lawyer Oswald Hinge and French actor Romain Duris, who plays Cinquanta, one of the actual kidnappers who developed a sympathy for the kidnapped boy in disgust over his grandfather’s cold-hearted refusal to pay. Yet he not only loved making money, he hated spending it, obsessively hoarding it. Paul Getty was not only the richest man in the world but the richest man in the history of the world at that time, the world’s first billionaire. The irony is that at the time of the kidnapping, the older J. Meanwhile, the elder Getty sends his head of security, ex-CIA agent Fletcher Chase (Mark Wahlberg), to find the kidnappers and try to get the boy back without the ransom. When the billionaire refuses, Gail has no choice but to find a way to change his mind. With no real funds of her own, the boy’s desperate mother Gail is forced to ask his wealthy grandfather to pay. ![]() ![]() But the kidnapping is real and the kidnappers send a letter demanding a ransom of $17 million dollars. When the teen is kidnapped, there is a suspicion it is a hoax, since Paul sometimes joked about extracting money from his fabulously rich but famously cheap grandfather. But the kidnappers don’t know that when they snatch Paul off the streets. Paul Getty Jr., who goes by the name John (Andrew Buchan), she and her son have no access to the Getty money. Living in Rome with her three other younger children, Gail Harris Getty (Williams) rarely sees her wild-living teen-aged son, who goes by the name Paul (Charlie Plummer, who is not related to Christopher). But the real central figure in this thriller is not the billionaire but his ex-daughter-in-law Gail, played marvelously by Michelle Williams, the mother of the billionaire’s kidnapped 16-year-old grandson.Īs Gail repeatedly notes, she is not a Getty but her son certainly is one. Ridley Scott made the release date window, and the film may be even better for the casting change.Ĭhristopher Plummer does a bang up job as the elder Getty, and since he is much closer in age to the 80-year-old oil tycoon, it meant that he did not have to endure the same kind of make-up transformation Spacey needed, making it more convincing casting. To save his Oscar-hopeful film, Scott made the bold choice to re-cast the role with Christopher Plummer and re-shoot, not digitally alter, the 22 scenes Spacey appeared in during nine days filming in November to still try for a late December release. Paul Getty, Kevin Spacey, was embroiled in his own scandal. In making his drama about the Getty family crisis, Ridley Scott was faced with a crisis of his own. The two of the most mind-boggling events, Getty’s refusal to pay the ransom and the incident with the ear, are true. ![]() The kidnapping dragged on for months and some of the most bizarre events in the film really happened, sometimes were even more strange than depicted. Based on real events and people, director Scott made some changes made for dramatic effect, rearranging events in time, or combined or compressed them or fictionalized others. This strange-but-true story is part crime thriller and part psychological family drama steeped in obsessive greed. The event was one of the most infamous scandals of the decade, because the notoriously miserly Getty was then the richest man in the world yet declined to pay the ransom he could easily afford. Everyone recognizes that hoarders have a psychological problem but what if the thing that is hoarded is money? Ridley Scott’s ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD tells the true story of the 1973 kidnapping of the grandson of oil magnate J.
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