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

[amber]

At age 88, Christopher Plummer became the oldest Academy Award nominee in an acting category.

[bessie]

The closing credits mention that some of the events depicted in the movie have been altered for dramatic effect. Some of these deviations include the fact that young Paul's father, John Getty Jr. (Andrew Buchan) was more involved in requesting the ransom money from grandfather J. P. Getty Sr. (Christopher Plummer) than the movie suggests (where his ex-wife does all of these negotiations). Paul himself was regularly beaten and tortured during the five months that he was held captive. After his release, he was found by the roadside by a truck driver (there was no chase through a village involving the mafia and his mother). On his mother's insistence, he called his grandfather to thank him for supplying the ransom, but the old man refused to come to the phone. Getty Sr. didn't die that same night; he lived on for another three years after his grandson's release.

[miriam]

When the project was in development, Angelina Jolie was offered the lead female role of Gail Harris, the mother of John Paul Getty III, but declined. When the project was officially announced, Natalie Portman had been offered the Gail Harris role. However, she had to decline as she was expecting her second baby. Michelle Williams was finally cast.

[kristen]

The thin piece of paper which Getty likes to peruse is called a ticker tape, which is spat out of a ticker-tape machine, which links to a particular stock exchange. The point of this review, to gauge the market interest or value of his company or the price of a commodity, like oil which comes out of his oil wells.

[sara]

The film was originally going to have its premiere at the AFI Fest, but Sony withdrew the film following a series of sexual assault allegations made against Kevin Spacey.

[cameron]

Mark Wahlberg claimed he played Fletcher's final scene with J. Paul Getty as more angry and confrontational in the re-shoot of the scene with Christopher Plummer than how he had played the scene originally with Kevin Spacey.

[bernice]

Director Ridley Scott based this movie on the book "Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty" by John Pearson, which documented the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III. The infamous Getty abduction was also one of the inspirations for the book "Man on Fire" by A.J. Quinnell, which was adapted into Man on Fire (2004) by Scott's late brother, Tony Scott.

[kristina]

Jean Paul Getty's portrayals in this film and Danny Boyle's miniseries Trust (2018) are both by Canadian actors Christopher Plummer and Donald Sutherland.

[beth]

Fletcher Chace mentioned that the gangster they were dealing with were not Old-school Malavita (Italian for Mob), as in they lack a "code of honor", or that they are ruthless in the pursuit of money.

[kyle]

The film's cast includes two Oscar winners; Timothy Hutton and Christopher Plummer, and two Oscar nominees; Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg.

[harry]

Christopher Plummer claimed he was prepared to replace Kevin Spacey as J. Paul Getty on short notice because he had previously been considered for the role and had read the script. He had less than two weeks to memorize his lines, but did have the advantage of having met Getty in London at a couple of his parties during the '60s.

[toni]

Michelle Williams said that she would have felt unable to promote the film if Kevin Spacey had stayed in it because she felt so much affinity for the people that he had hurt.