All the Money in the World - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[janice]

The re-shoots needed to replace Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer took eight days to film at a cost of $10 million. It also involved Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams having to return to the Rome set during the Thanksgiving holiday of 2017.

[fred]

The decision to re-film the Kevin Spacey footage with Christopher Plummer as a replacement meant that twenty-two scenes had to be re-shot.

[jessie]

Alongside Alien: Covenant (2017), this film marks the second time Ridley Scott has directed two films released in a single year. The first time was in 2001, when Scott's films Hannibal (2001) and Black Hawk Down (2001) were released.

[clayton]

Jean Paul Getty's phobias and eccentricities are somewhat reminiscent of Howard Hughes's. Getty was probably the only billionaire who regularly washed his own underwear, not to save money on laundry bills, but because he didn't like the detergent the laundry used.

[terry]

Although it is extremely rare, this was not the only time a major character had to be recast in a Hollywood film after the filming was almost or entirely completed. For instance, after more than half of the movie Solomon and Sheba (1959) was done, the film's star and co-producer, Tyrone Power, who played Solomon, suddenly died and had to be replaced with Yul Brynner. All of his scenes were then re-shot save for the ones where Power is in the far distance and therefore can easily be mistaken for Brynner. Also, Michael J. Fox replaced Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in the first Back to the Future (1985) movie, even though at least one third of the movie had already been completed with Stoltz in the role, because the filmmakers thought that Stoltz's Marty was simply coming off as too serious.

[jesse]

Director Ridley Scott said that one interesting aspect of re-filming all of Kevin Spacey's scenes with Christopher Plummer is that Spacey played J. Paul Getty as a more explicitly cold and unfeeling character, while Plummer's take on the role showed both a warmer side to the billionaire, but the same unflinching refusal to simply pay off his grandson's kidnappers. Scott also stated that neither Spacey nor his representatives had called him since Spacey's history of sexual harassment was revealed, and added that he had no plans to release the footage with Spacey to any public viewing forum.

[ray]

Jean Paul Getty was eighty years old when his grandson was kidnapped. Kevin Spacey, at age 58, had to be prosthetically aged to resemble Getty, whereas his replacement Christopher Plummer, at age 88, needed no special makeup applications.

[chad]

Ridley Scott directed John Paul Getty III's son Balthazar Getty in White Squall (1996) twenty-one years earlier.

[nora]

There is an aerial shot at dawn in Morocco, when a Muezzin calls the town to prayer from a minaret. This shot is taken from Black Hawk Down (2001), also directed by Ridley Scott.

[lonnie]

On November 8, 2017, Sony and the film's production team unanimously opted to replace Kevin Spacey as J. Paul Getty with Christopher Plummer. The decision was made just over a month prior to the December 22nd wide release. This was the second time Ridley Scott was faced with drastic re-shoots during his career. He had previously almost had to abandon Gladiator (2000) due to the untimely death of Oliver Reed.

[riley]

For the opening sequence, director Ridley Scott rehashed a segment of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960).

[jamie]

Michelle Williams was paid "over 1,000 times less" than Mark Wahlberg for the re-shoots despite having higher billing than he. Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million, while Williams received just $1,000 for the week's work. Many of initial reports neglect to mention that Williams herself requested to go without pay entirely, that Wahlberg shot many more scenes with Plummer than she did, or that Wahlberg's contract allowed him to approve co-stars, reportedly refusing to approve Plummer as Spacey's replacement unless he was paid extra. After news of the discrepancy came to light, Wahlberg donated his entire re-shoot salary to the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund in Williams' name. His agency, WME (which is also Williams' agency), donated an additional $500,000.

[amber]

Originally, Jack Nicholson was offered the role of Jean Paul Getty, but he declined the offer. Kevin Spacey eventually signed on for the role, but was then replaced by Christopher Plummer.

[lonnie]

In the exchange between the Sheiks and Fletcher Chace, the Sheiks said the Fletcher was part of the CIA den of spies which overthrew the Mossadegh administration. Mossadegh was a Socialist who ruled Iran in the Post- World War II era.

[ella]

In the opening sequence that shows J Paul Getty III walking down a street at night in Rome, some of the cars present would not be reflective of typical Italian traffic; there are two large US cars, a second generation Ford Thunderbird (1958-1960) and a mid-1960s Chrysler along with an Austin-Healey 3000 (1959-1967).

[sophie]

According to Business Insider, despite Kevin Spacey's replacement, there is one quick shot in the desert where he can still be seen.

[liam]

Gary Oldman was considered for the role of J. Paul Getty.

[charlie]

After Kevin Spacey was replaced by Christopher Plummer, director Ridley Scott decided not to show Plummer any footage of Spacey in character, or even tell him how Spacey played the scenes. When finished, Scott found both performances to be quite different and equally effective in their own particular styles.

[kenzi]

The $17 million amount requested as ransom was the equivalent of nearly $100 million in 2017.