You may have seen set photos from this one, as McConaughey sports a heavily balding hairline and gut for the role.
After more than a decade away from film, Syriana writer/director Stephen Gaghan returns with a new film based on the Bre-X Mineral Corporation mining scandal and starring Matthew McConaughey as an avaricious gold prospector.
Somewhere on a venn diagram with The Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short and Blood Diamond, Gold centres on struggling, pawn shop-frequenting businessman Kenny Wells (McConaughey), who strikes gold in a big way in Indonesia and soon finds himself being courted in Wall Street’s biggest boardrooms.
Gaghan previously wrote the script Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, so hopefully he’s rustled up some more magic here.