Mining scandal drama Gold finally appears to have found a safe pair of hands in Stephen Gaghan, after a fiddly development process. He has Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez already aboard and has just added Michelle Williams to the mix.
The film, which has a script from Patrick Massett and John Zinman, tells the story of the 1993 Bre-X Corporation mining scandal. The plot follows a rough-around-the-edges prospector David Walsh (McConaughey) who stumbles upon one of the largest gold mines in the world in the Indonesian jungle.
You may not be surprised to learn, given the appearance of the word “scandal” before, that it turned out to be bogus. Ramirez is set as geologist Michael Acosta in the true-life tale, while Williams will be his wife, called Jeannette in reality, but whose name may be changed for the movie. Gaghan will start shooting in June in Thailand, New York and New Mexico.
Williams was last on our screens in Suite Française, and has shot the new, untitled film from her Wendy And Lucy /** Meek’s Cutoff **director Kelly Reichardt. She’s currently working on Manchester-By-The-Sea with Casey Affleck and Kyle Chandler.