Matthew McConaughey Lands on a Literal Gold Mine With Edgar Ramirez
A balding McConaughey heads to the jungles of Borneo in search of gold.
Matthew McConaughey’s last couple of flicks haven’t done so hot at the box office or with critics (Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees, Free State of Jones), but the Academy Award-winner looks to be getting back to his winning ways with the upcoming Gold. A little something to tide fans over until the highly anticipated adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower drops next year, Gold stars a hilariously balding McConaughey as the down-on-his-luck Kenny Wells. Fortunately for Wells, however, things take a turn for the better once he teams up with geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramirez, fresh off his turn as Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán in Hands of Stone) and heads to the undocumented jungles of Borneo in search of a gold mine.
Directed by Stephen Gaghan (who also directed 2005’s George Clooney and Matt Damon thriller Syriana and who’s most readily known as the man behind Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic screenplay), Gold is set to hit theaters on Christmas Day.
