With this many Oscar winners, it’s bound to be excellent.
While Christopher Plummer is currently enjoying his Oscar nomination for All the Money in the World, we’ve already turned our attention to another adaptation of the infamous story on the Getty family.
As mentioned previously, we’ve had our eye on Trust for quite some time now because the list of talent involved in this drama is extensive.
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) is directing this one, with Simon Beaufoy (Academy Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire) and Christian Colson (Academy Award-winning producer of Slumdog Millionaire) also involved.
In terms of the acting talent, the legendary Donald Sutherland and Hilary Swank are also involved.
Like Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, Trust tells the rebellious story of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, heir to the Getty oil fortune.
Inspired by actual events, Trust delves into the trials and triumphs of one of America’s wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys. Equal parts family history, dynastic saga and an examination of the corrosive power of money, Trust explores the complexities at the heart of every family, rich or poor.
Told over multiple series and spanning the 20th century, Trust begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson), an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.
His captors banked on a multimillion-dollar ransom. After all, what rich family wouldn’t pay for the return of a loved one? Paul’s grandfather, J. Paul Getty Sr. (Donald Sutherland), an enigmatic oil tycoon and possibly the richest man in the world, is marooned in a Tudor mansion in the English countryside surrounded by a harem of mistresses and a pet lion. He’s busy.
Paul’s father, J. Paul Getty Jr. (Michael Esper), is lost in a daze in London and refuses to answer the phone. Only Paul’s mother, Gail Getty (Hilary Swank), is left to negotiate with the increasingly desperate kidnappers. Unfortunately, she’s broke. Trust charts the teenage grandson’s nightmare ordeal at the hands of kidnappers who cannot understand why nobody seems to want their captive back.
Boyle will be directing the first three episodes of the 10-part series and it airs this Spring on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV. We can’t wait.
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