Find out the value of All The Money in the World
This year, meet the world’s wealthiest and witness what misfortune their fortune has brought them. VIVA International Pictures presents All The Money in
the World, which follows the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.
It was on the fateful day of July 10, 1973 when the 16-year-old boy who was living in Rome got abducted and brought to a remote hideaway. The kidnappers called his mother, Gail, demanding a ransom of $17M. Gail, who had no access whatsoever to her in-law’s riches, tried desperately to get the elder Getty’s help, but the notoriously tightfisted multibillionaire would not even give a penny. Assistance came in the person of Getty’s advisor, Fletcher Chace. As Gail and Chace race against time to free the young Getty from further brutality, the movie reveals the true and lasting value of love over money.
It is directed by renowned Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ridley Scott
(Black Hawk Down, 2001), Gladiator (2000)
and Thelma & Louise (1991), with screenplay written by David Scarpa, starring Michelle Williams as Gail, Mark Wahlberg as Chase, Charlie Plummer as John Paul Getty III and Christopher Plummer as J. Paul Getty. It is based on the book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and
Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty by John Pearson, with some scenes and characters fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Scarpa’s script incorporated the background of Getty for viewers to have an understanding of who he was: a millionaire at age 24, socializing with the rich and famous and used to be reckless with his fortune. Eventually, he became a disciplined, ruthless capitalist and a patron of art and architecture.
Plummer shares, “I was thrilled when Ridley called me to do it — I had always wanted to work with him and… I’m fond of playing real people…(and it) is so well-written that I completely jumped at it.” All the Money in the World opens in cinemas today.