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Jan 26, 2017 · Crisply written by Friday Night Lights screenwriters Patrick Massett and John Zinman, Gold is based on a real-life 1990s stock-market swindle emanating from Calgary, Canada, which the filmmakers...
- Ella Taylor
- Was The Mining Company Really Based Out of Reno, Nevada?
- Was David Walsh's Company Nearly Broke Before He "Found" Gold in Indonesia?
- How Did The Real Kenny Wells and Michael Acosta Meet?
- What Motivated Michael de Guzman to Commit Fraud?
- Is FBI Agent Paul Jennings Based on A Real person?
- Was Michael de Guzman (Michael Acosta in The Movie) Married in Real Life?
- How Much Were Bre-X Stock Shares Worth at Their Peak?
- Did The Real Kenny Wells Have to Touch A Tiger to Close A Deal?
- Did The Indonesian Government Really Try to Get in on The Action?
- Did Michael de Guzman Really Plummet to His Death from A Helicopter?
No, the real company, Bre-X Minerals Ltd., founded by David Walsh (renamed Kenny Wells in the movie), was a small Calgary-based mining company. It was so small that Walsh initially ran it out of his basement. For legal reasons and to make the story more appealing, the movie relocates the company to Reno, Nevada and calls it Washoe Mining Inc. after...
Yes. "Basically, Bre-X was a shell of a company with almost nonexistent working capital," said David Walsh (the real Kenny Wells) in a March 1997 interview. The Gold true story reveals that prior to his success with Bre-X, Walsh had declared personal bankruptcy in June 1992, $200,000 in debt. "I decided to go into Indonesia, and that's where we sta...
As indicated by the photos at the top of this page, Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey) is based on Canadian businessman David Walsh (Matthew McConaughey's character was originally named Kenny Walsh in early iterations of the script). -Financial Post While Edgar Ramírez's character, Michael Acosta, seems to be primarily based on Filipino geologist Mi...
In an industry dominated by big American mining companies, Michael de Guzman struggled for recognition in his field. Despite being very intelligent and having an engineering degree, De Guzman never got a shot at a high-paying job. In researching the Gold movie true story, we learned that it was very hard for Filipinos, even with the right credentia...
No. Since the mining company at the heart of the scandal was actually based out of Canada and not the U.S. like in the movie, Canadian authorities investigated the real case. Toby Kebbell's character is fictional.
Yes. The movie implies Edgar Ramírez's character is not married, when in fact, the real Michael de Guzman had at least four wives all around Asia. His frequent traveling allowed him to keep them a secret from one another. In order to put more focus on the story's main plot points, screenwriters John Zinman and Patrick Massett had to omit this inter...
In 1993, geologists John Felderhof and Michael de Guzman convinced Bre-X founder David Walsh to buy an area of land in the middle of the jungle not far from the Busang River in Borneo, Indonesia. Bre-X had been a penny stock, but as the estimated amount of gold at the site went from 2 million Troy ounces to a whopping 70 million ounces a few years ...
No. In real-life, David Walsh (the real Kenny Wells) never had to touch a tiger to close a deal. However, for the movie scene, Matthew McConaughey did actually touch a tiger. "They scheduled this scene where I touch this tiger the last scene in the film," says McConaughey. "Now, if you know anything about scheduling, that means if something goes do...
Yes. The Indonesian government under President Suharto (pictured below) noticed the escalating worth of the site. The government stated that a small outfit like Bre-X would have to share the site with a larger company, and the government chose one with ties to President Suharto's family, a Canadian company called Barrick. Suharto brought in his lon...
Yes. Filipino geologist Michael de Guzman, who is renamed Michael Acosta and portrayed by Edgar Ramírez in the movie, did perish after plummeting into the Borneo jungle from a helicopter. I use the word "plummet" because even though many believe he jumped to his death, some believe he was pushed (or even faked his death altogether). It depends on w...
Fool's Gold is a 2008 American romantic action comedy film from Warner Bros. Pictures about a recently divorced couple who rekindle their romantic life while searching for a lost treasure. The film is directed by Andy Tennant and reunites the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days stars Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson.
- Troy Takaki, Tracey Wadmore-Smith
- Andy Tennant
- Don Burgess
- Donald De Line, Bernie Goldmann, Jon Klane
Feb 8, 2008 · Fool's Gold: Directed by Andy Tennant. With Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena. A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure -- and their estranged romance.
- Andy Tennant
- 2 min
Jan 26, 2017 · Gold. Matt Zoller Seitz January 26, 2017. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Gold" is the latest in a subgenre of films that seems to think that the sight of men moving gigantic amounts of money around electronically—and sometimes just stealing it, or having it stolen from them—is innately fascinating.
Jan 26, 2017 · Gold. Directed by Stephen Gaghan. Adventure, Drama, Thriller. R. 2 hours. By A.O. Scott. Jan. 26, 2017. Kenny Wells, the feckless owner of a Nevada mining company, is the latest entry in the...
Feb 8, 2008 · Daniel Zelman. Screenplay, Story. Treasure hunter Ben "Finn" Finnegan has sunk his marriage to Tess and his trusty boat in his obsessive quest to find the legendary Queen's Dowry. When he finds a vital clue that may finally pinpoint the treasure's whereabouts, he drags Tess and her boss, billionaire Nigel Honeycutt, along on the hunt.
