• Gold

  • Patrick Massett & John Zinman
  • Black List
  • 2011
  • Available
  • Drama
  • 83.1
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Market: Wed, 13 Apr 2011
Producer: Paul Haggis, Michael Mann
Director: Michael Mann
AgentMatt Rosen (CAA)
ManagerMichael Botti, Andrew Deane (Industry Entertainment)
ProductionHwy61 Films
A poor Reno stock salesman teams up with an Australian archaeologist to strike gold in the mountains of Indonesia. When they become billionaires almost overnight on Wall Street, things spin out of control fast.
A bawdy, low-life opportunist helps find the largest gold mine in history, works to keep control of it, and is ultimately unmasked as a fraud while escaping with millions of dollars
Two former gold miners team up for a final attempt at striking a plethora of gold in the jungle of Indonesia. Complications arise when the pair attempts to strike a deal with a Wall Street investment banker that results in a struggle over wealth, power and greed.
Film
Film, Character Study, Crime, Drama, Romance, Drugs, Political, Work Related, Foreign Locale
129
R
Medium
M
White / European
40
Average
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
15% 1997 / 85% 1993- June 1994
Jungles of Indonesia including a helicopter. Several corporate conference rooms, hallways and offices. Several other high-end bars and restaurants. Shangra-LA hotel, suite, restaurant and bar. NYSE floor. Several NYC high-rise apartments and suites.
Opening to a dimly lit interrogation room where DAVID WALSH (40s), is being questioned by PAUL JENNINGS (30s), a no nonsense man. A flashback introduces Walsh at a local bar talking to the regulars BOBBY BURNS (50’s) and ROY BAKER (60s) and his girlfriend, KAY ELLIS (30’s), the bar’s cocktail waitress.

Walsh is in a meeting with an investment banker at the Colson & Wells Capitol Group, LLOYD STANTON (Late 20s). Walsh pitches him on an investment, but Stanton quickly declines his offers due to optioning time and environmental risks. Flashback to Indonesia in 1987, where MIKE GUZMAN (Late 30s), a geologist who discovered a copper mine in Southeast Asia. He sits in an bar with Walsh explaining where and how he found the copper, and how he’ll find gold.

Back from the flashback as Walsh awakens (19), as he abruptly leaves the house and steals Kate’s personal jewelry for cash to take a plane to Indonesia. He ends up at the luxury hotel where he meets with Guzman. Guzman reveals that those years back when he thought claimed he spotted gold he was wrong, but now he knows where gold lies and claims it’s just a matter of...