in 1973
The grandson of the World's richest man
J Paul Getty is kidnapped by an armed gang
in Rome, which demands from his mother, Abigail Getty
17 million dollars ransom
but Getty refuses to pay
And he sends his security chief, former CIA officer
Fletcher Chase, to Italy to invistigate
The kidnappers respond with severing his grandson's ear
and sending it in an envelope to an Italian
newspaper, and threatened to remove more of his organs
if they didn't receive the ransom money
Getty was the son of an Oil trader from Oklahoma
and got involved in the oil business at the age of sixteen
and became a millionaire at the age of 23
but the source of his immense wealth
was oil he extracted from a Saudi desert
he purchased in 1949
for $10 million
he also learned Arabic in order
to expand his business in the middle east
and invested his money in buying 200 companies
and forming The Getty Oil company
Getty's relationship with the Middle East
brought Scott back to shooting in Jordan
where he shot previously The Martian
Prometheus and G.I Jane
Scott is also known for offering strong female leads
in his movies such as Thelma and Louise
and Ripley in Alien
And Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheous
and in "All the money in the world" makes the mother
who is played by Michelle Williams
its heroin and moral anchor
The mother was divorced from Getty's son, the drug addict.
And she had relinquished her right for alimony in return for
taking custody of her children. hence she didn't have
her son's ransom's money. and when she seeks his rich grandfather's
help, he refuses to meet and listen to her
The mother's predicament gains her Chase's sympathy, who is portrayed
Mark Wahlberg, and he turns against his boss
Getty was known for his parsimony with himself and his family
and he put all his money in a trust in order to avoid paying tax
and spent his money only on Art artifacts
which he exhibited freely to the masses
in his museums, such as Villa Getty
which contains tens of thousands of ancient artifacts
this incongruity was not lost on Christopher Plummer
who portrayed him in the film
initially, Kevin Spacey played Getty's role
but after the revelation about his sexual abuses
Scott recast him with Plummer and reshot all his
scenes at the cost of $10 million
instead of recreating him digitally
as he did with Proximo's character in Gladiator
after the passing of
his actor Oliver Reed during the shoot