Date 14/03/2017 - News People
According to Deadline, the 79-year-old director is "finalising" plans to steer the cast and crew on a drama about the 1970s kidnapping case of oil firm heir John Paul Getty III - the grandson of ultra-rich tycoon J. Paul Getty. He also ignored the pleas of his own son, John Paul Getty, Jr, to free him and of John Paul's mother Gail Harris as she had divorced his son and had refused his money to raise her family alone, however, when one of his ears was sent through the post to a newspaper along with a lock of his hair the tycoon eventually paid $2.9 million to free him.
