FX has ordered the limited series “Trust” from the executive producersย behind “Slumdog Millionaire,” TheWrap has learned.
Theย 10-episodeย seriesย will tell the story of John Paul Getty III, heir to the Getty oil fortune, who was kidnapped in Rome in 1973 by the Mafia.
The series will followย the young man’s nightmare ordeal at the hands of kidnappers. The Italian police think it’s a prank and decline to investigate.
Paul’s father is lost in a heroin daze in London and refuses to answer the phone. Paul’s grandfather – possibly the richest man in the world – is marooned in a Tudor mansion in the English countryside surrounded by five mistresses and a pet lion.