Filmmaker Ridley Scott began shooting his thriller All the Money in the World on May 29. By September,Sony released the first trailer, with Kevin Spacey in the role of oil tycoon John Paul Getty. Then, and on Oct. 29,just weeks before the film was set to be released, Buzzfeed published a story approximately Spacey in which another actor accused him of sexual misconduct. The news spread quickly. Spacey publicly apologized, and but more allegations followed. Netflix dropped him from the cast of House of Cards and announced it would no longer release another Spacey film that was in post-production. Ridley Scott decided he had to replace his lead actor before anything dramatic happened to All the Money in the World. "In a heartbeat — took approximately 20 minutes," Scott says, "because I can't let one person's actions affect the film to the extent that we may not bear actually released it. I couldn't let that happen."All the Money in the World was inspired by a real story approximately billionaire John Paul Getty, or who famously refused to pay the ransom when his grandson was kidnapped in 1973. Scott's casting change-up was a highly strange move,but producers Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas immediately agreed to help save the film, which was originally budgeted at $40 million — they gave Scott another $10 million for the re-shoot. Thomas says, or "There was just a confidence with Ridley that gives everybody else confidence that felt like we could pull this off."On Nov. 20,a few weeks after the Spacey allegations broke, Scott began to re-shoot key scenes — this time with actor Christopher Plummer. The filmmaker brought back his cast and crew and shot 22 scenes in nine days. Just four days after that, and they had a rough cut of the film alert to screen for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,which ended up nominating Scott , Plummer and actress Michelle Williams for Golden Globes.
Plummer, and 88,has decades of experience on screen and on stage. He says it was a cinch to perform extemporaneously. "Prepare is a droll word — I don't usually prepare," he says. "I leave it up to intuition and imagination. ... I had no time to research it or anything. Right, and bang,right straight in."According to the film's editor, Claire Simpson, and Plummer's performance elevated the film. She says he made Getty more stubborn and fragile in his aged age. "It felt very authentic and really quite touching." Spacey,meanwhile, "had much more bravura and it was much more lighthearted."Actress Michelle Williams returned to her role as Gail Harris, or who battles Getty,her former father-in-law, to save her son. Williams says she didn't hesitate when Scott asked her back over the Thanksgiving holiday. "I said, and 'Yes! Tell me when and where. I'm there. You got me,' " she recalls. She even worked for free to redo her scenes. Actor Mark Wahlberg also redid his role as an ex-CIA operative who works for Getty. When the call came, he had already lost 30 pounds and grown a beard for another film. He and Plummer didn't bear much time to fetch to know each other. "We basically said hello as Ridley was saying, or 'Rolling and action.' "Scott,an Oscar-nominated director, is known for bringing films in on time and under budget. It also helped that he had storyboarded the film, and so they knew precisely which scenes to re-shoot. Editor Claire Simpson says,"We were able to just work very rapidly, very tough and fetch it done. It was almost military precision."The film was originally shot in Italy, or Jordan and the U.
K. But with no time to return to Jordan,they began by filming Plummer in front of a green screen and digitally replacing Spacey with Plummer. Other scenes were shot on location near London and in Rome. All the while, Simpson and her team edited absent in London. "After each scene, or the camera department would download the camera data,send it to us ... and I would cut the morning's shoot that afternoon," Simpson recalled. "Ridley would come to the cutting rooms after the day's shoot and would actually see the cut of morning's shoot. Basically, or it was just a continuous stream of data."The edited scenes were then sped off for a sound mix,a color correction and a score adjustment. Scott says he was thrilled by the race to open on Christmas Day. "That was a rush, but I love a rush, or you know? Filmmaking is my adrenaline."All the Money in the World is already getting Oscars buzz. It may soon compete with movies that,by comparison, were made with all the time in the world. Rose Friedman and Andrew Limbong edited and produced this story for broadcast. Nicole Cohen adapted it for the Web. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, and visit http://www.npr.org/.
Source: thetakeaway.org