VIDEO : Michael Landes Joins Matthew McConaughey in New Mining Drama

The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned that actor Michael Landes will appear in the Matthew McConaughey mining drama Gold. The Stephen Gaghan-directed film will star McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez in a story based on the real-life Bre-X scandal, about a massive stock fraud involving an Indonesian gold mine. Landes will play a Wall Street banker who travels to the mine to assess the company behind it. The Weinstein Company purchased the U.S. rights for $15 million this spring, with a marketing spend valued at $20 million.