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Hollywood is known for moving slowly. Production delays, development hell, and rescheduled releases are all part of standard operating procedure in the movie business. That’s why it’s so amazing that there will not be a delay in releasing “All the Money in the World” on its scheduled opening December 22 despite recasting and reshooting one of the main character’s scenes.
Christopher Plummer will replace disgraced star Kevin Spacey in the role of J. Paul Getty. With less than a month and a half to shoot and re-edit the film, director Ridley Scott is racing against the clock.
“They are committed to the 12/22 date — if anyone can pull it off it’s Scott,” an anonymous source at Sony told Yahoo News.
Why this is brilliant
When life gives Hollywood lemons, they do what they can to spin it into lemonade. If they can pull this off, they will be rewarded in a few big ways.
The draw for the film was going to be Spacey who was magically transformed into Getty as can be seen in the original trailer. They even did a dramatic reveal, focusing the majority of the trailer on co-stars Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg while giving Spacey very little screen time and only a single word spoken.
The push was already on for Spacey to be nominated for an Academy Award. That push was immediately halted when news broke that he was accused of unwelcome sexual advances on a 14-year-old actor, Anthony Rapp, three decades ago. To make matters worse, he used his “apology” to declare he was homosexual in an effort to diffuse the situation. It didn’t work.
Kevin Spacey: If I made a drunken pass at a 14-year-old, I’m sorry. Oh, and I’m gay.
After decades of speculation, Spacey has finally come out as being gay. While this likely doesn’t surprise many, it adds a conundrum for liberals. On one hand, he’s admitting that it’s possible he committed an “inappropriate” act against a minor, in which case he should be the target of the anti-Hollywood-monster crew. On the other hand, he’s coming out as gay which is a victory for the LGBTQ community. How will leftists respond?
This is big news across the board. If coming out now is enough to distract media away from the sordid details of the alleged moves he made on a 14-year-old, then he may not suffer the same fate as Weinstein. If not, this could end up being a strong career derailed by stupidity and sexual deviancy.
Here’s the ironic part. Despite the star power behind this interesting true story, it was still going to face an uphill battle driving people to theaters to see it. Now, it has a great chance of being successful because of the switch. People will be interested to see if Plummer and Scott were able to pull off the switch seamlessly. The press behind the movie will be extraordinary behind news of Spacey’s fall from grace.
There’s another potential benefit to releasing it on schedule: Oscars. It needed to get out before the end of the year to qualify for the 2018 Academy Awards. Hollywood, with its penchant for virtue signaling, is apt to reward the movie based upon its decision to dump Spacey. They’ll want to show the world that they’re opposed to the sexual crimes flooding the news ever since Harvey Weinstein was outed as an alleged serial sexual criminal. This could be the industry’s chance to say, “See, we don’t support sexual predators.”
Regardless of how successful the movie is at the box office or whether it wins Oscars, this was the best possible move by Sony, Scott, and TriStar Pictures. Delays would have made the release anticlimactic. Keeping Spacey would have made the movie a pariah for moviegoers and Oscar voters alike. Pushing forward as they are will be a test for the production team, but if they can pull it off, everyone could win big… other than Spacey.
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