George Clooney is Held Hostage in First Money Monster Trailer
Jodie Foster makes a welcome return to directing duties with topical hostage thriller, Money Monster staring the economically sound pairing of George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
Money Monster features Clooney as Lee Gates, a loud, gregarious financial TV host who offers up stock advice on his eponymous and very obnoxious hit cable TV show. Roberts is Nancy Fenn, the director and executive producer of the show, who has to deal with his charismatic but chaotic presenting method every day.
However, regular service is broken when Kyle Budwell, played by Jack O’Connell, a blue-collar worker sick of the damage still being done by Wall Street, invades the studio toting a gun and a bomb. With a growing family to support, he takes Gates hostage on air to increase a stock’s value and expose the corruption behind the stock market, mostly so he can get some answers.
That news doesn’t sit well with Dominic West's Walt Camby, the CEO of the company behind a bad stock call that Gates makes, who tries to minimise the damage to his own career by hiding out in his private jet.
Money Monster is released in the UK on May 27.