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Jan 26, 2017 · 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 ...
Jan 19, 2017 · Incredibly, the movie is based on a story that’s all-too-true for investors who were duped into one of the biggest scams in mining history. “Gold” is based on the story of the rise and fall ...
- Wayne Duggan
Gold is a 2016 American crime drama film directed by Stephen Gaghan and written by Patrick Massett and John Zinman. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Édgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll, Toby Kebbell, Craig T. Nelson, Stacy Keach and Bruce Greenwood. The film is loosely based on the true story of the 1997 Bre-X mining scandal ...
- $20 million
- Daniel Pemberton
- December 30, 2016 (United States)
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Jan 18, 2017 · Gold is the story of the biggest mining scam of all time, resulting in a $6 billion fraud.. An employee of Canada’s Bre-X Minerals, prospector Michael de Guzman, and John Federhof, a businessman ...
- Michele Manelis
Jan 27, 2017 · The mystery of Michael de Guzman. May 26, 2007: Four wives, nine children and one gigantic mining scandal are all part of the legacy left by Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman. But it’s hard to ...
Jan 25, 2017 · While it's true that Wells is a fictitious entity, the character was actually based upon a very real person by the name of David Walsh, and the movie is inspired by the Bre-X scandal that defined ...
Jan 20, 2017 · Gold just so happens to be — as the movie posters say — “based on a too good to be true story.”. Most Canadians will think it’s based on the $6-billion Bre-X Minerals Ltd. stock-market swindle of the 1990s, the country’s most notorious scandal. But for legal and mass-appeal reasons, the company in the film is not Calgary-based Bre-X ...
