The film centers its story on the kidnapping of the grandson of the notorious billionaire in 1973, as well as his subsequent refusal to pay the ransom.
Based solely on this trailer, it looks like All the Money in the World is trying to frame Kevin Spacey’s version of J. Paul Getty as a Charles Foster Kane-esque figure.
With no financial rescue on the way, the boy’s mother teams up with an investigator to help bring him home as his kidnappers torture and mutilate him.
The decision to keep him at arm’s length for much of the preview helps sell the mystique of the character, and it lends the sense that he’s nothing if not eccentric.