BBC Sets September Premiere Date For Getty Family Drama ‘Trust’ Starring Donald Sutherland & Hilary Swank
BBC Two has set a September premiere date for ‘Trust‘, the ten-part series star-packed drama from the Academy Award-winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ team of Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy and Christian Colson, about the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, heir to the Getty oil fortune.
Trust opens in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson), heir to the Getty fortune, in Rome. His captors bank on a multi-million dollar ransom, but back in England Paul’s wealthy grandfather (Donald Sutherland) refuses to pay up. With Paul’s father (Michael Esper) lost in a drug-induced daze, it is left to Paul’s mother – the penniless Gail Getty (Hilary Swank) – to negotiate with both the increasingly desperate kidnappers and her stubborn former father-in-law to save her son.
The series stars Donald Sutherland (‘The Hunger Games’) as J. Paul Getty Senior, the oil tycoon and art collector at the head of the Getty family, alongside a stellar cast that includes Hilary Swank (‘Million Dollar Baby’), Brendan Fraser (‘The Mummy’), Harris Dickinson (‘Beach Rats’), Anna Chancellor (‘Ordeal By Innocence’), Charlotte Riley (‘Peaky Blinders’), Amanda Drew (‘Broadchurch’) and Sophie Winkleman (‘Peep Show’).
The drama, which examines the corrosive power of money and explores the complexities at the heart of every family, rich or poor, is created by Simon Beaufoy and executive produced by Danny Boyle, Beaufoy and Christian Colson, with Boyle directing the first three episodes.
‘Trust‘ premieres Wednesday, 12th September 2018 at 9pm on BBC Two.
