Kevin Spacey and Ridley Scott

Kevin Spacey Is Literally Being Removed from His Next Film

Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World.


Ridley Scott is preparing to replace the disgraced star with Christopher Plummer.

• Yohana Desta

November 9, 2017 8:53 am

Kevin Spacey, the disgraced actor who has been accused of sexual misconduct by numerous men, is getting dropped from his next film and replaced with Christopher Plummer. But here’s the twist: the movie, All the Money in the World, directed by Ridley Scott, is already finished and set for a Dec. 22 release—making the late replacement a rather unusual and bold decision.

Deadline reported the switch Wednesday night, noting that Scott is currently scheduling re-shoots with Plummer. Representatives for Scott confirmed the news to Vanity Fair. In the film, Spacey played J. Paul Getty, the oil tycoon who refused to pay a ransom when his grandson was kidnapped. The actor was nearly unrecognizable in the role, covered in makeup and prosthetics. Spacey ultimately worked on the film for about 8 to 10 days, as Getty is vital to the plot but not to the film’s adventurous story line. Per Deadline, the cast, crew, and Sony Pictures “agreed unanimously” to re-shoot the film with Plummer once the Spacey allegations began surfacing. Co-stars Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams will be cooperating with the shoots, Deadline adds.

Scott’s decision is a new sort of example of a filmmaker regaining control of his project once allegations threaten to overshadow it. The allegations against Spacey certainly seem to have destroyed his own career, but they’ve also marred projects for his collaborators. The film was previously pulled from the upcoming A.F.I. Festival, but it is still on track to hit its original Dec. 22 release date—a bullseye for awards-season consideration.

This is the second major production that has parted ways with Spacey in the wake of his sexual-misconduct scandal. Netflix essentially led the charge, announcing that it would no longer work with its onetime tentpole star. Spacey has since been cut from House of Cards, which is currently being re-written to exorcise him from its sixth-season story line. Netflix also decided not to move forward with Gore, a Gore Vidal biopic starring Spacey as the writer, even though that film was already in post-production when the misconduct allegations began.

There have also been more allegations against Spacey in the last 24 hours alone. Former newscaster Heather Unruh announced in a news conference on Wednesday that Spacey allegedly groped her son at a restaurant bar in 2016. Her son was 18 years old at the time. “Kevin Spacey bought him drink, after drink, after drink, and when my son was drunk, Spacey made his move and sexually assaulted him,” she claimed. “Spacey stuck his hands inside my son’s pants and grabbed his genitals.” Spacey has not yet responded to the allegations.

The Spacey aftermath mirrors the tremendous fallout that began shortly after the Harvey Weinstein scandal erupted. Numerous Weinstein Company films were stalled and pulled from release schedules as a result, while collaborators like Channing Tatum quickly canceled future planned projects. Other films, like Taylor Sheridan’s drama Wind River, came to an agreement that the Weinstein Company logo would be removed from future iterations, including streaming releases, home video releases, and awards-season screeners. In addition, T.W.C.’s future income from the film will be re-routed to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, a nonprofit organization.

After the allegations against him originally broke, Spacey apologized to actor Anthony Rapp (who made the allegations that opened up the floodgates), came out as gay, and announced that he is going to seek “evaluation and treatment.” Representatives for Spacey have not yet responded to V.F.’s request for comment about All the Money in the World.

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