Ridley Scott on the race to reshoot much of 'All the Money in the World'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Sir Ridley Scott just pulled off a one-of-a-kind filmmaking feat--cutting Kevin Spacey out of his new film and reshooting with Christopher Plummer in the role--all in just six weeks. Scott tells us about his mad dash to refilm 22 scenes of the Getty family kidnapping drama All the Money in the World.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:04.0	Yeah, I mean, I like a bit of stress, you know.
0:07.0	The drama?
0:08.0	I like pressure.
0:10.0	If you don't, don't do the job.
0:12.0	A bit of stress, that's how Sir Ridley Scott describes his daring response
0:17.0	to the disaster that almost befell his latest movie,
0:20.0	All the Money in the World.
0:21.8	When news broke at the end of October that Kevin Spacey,
0:24.9	who played billionaire Jay Paul Getty in the film,
0:27.8	had been accused of sexual assault.
0:30.3	Scott decided almost instantly to cut Spacey from his movie
0:33.7	and replace him with Christopher Plummer.
0:36.2	Scott had just six weeks to reassemble his cast
0:38.8	and reshoot 22 scenes with Plummer in the role, a feat that some said was impossible. In the end,
0:46.0	the film missed its original release date by just three days. But first on the news banter, after an
0:52.7	industry disrupting 2017, what lies ahead?
0:56.9	Stick around, it's the business from KCRW.
1:04.1	Today we are a trio in banter.
1:06.8	Of course you have me, Michael Schneider of Indie Wire, and Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter, Michael is here in the studio with me.
1:14.6	And Matt, annoyingly, is doing this from Hawaii on his vacation.
1:18.7	Annoying for you, maybe.
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