Spacey, 58, had been cast as billionaire J. Paul Getty in Scott’s “All the Money in the World,” due out Dec. 22. Director Ridley Scott says it was a “simple” decision to drop Kevin Spacey from a key role in his new movie. Scott told EW that he was holed up in London’s Abbey Road Studios when news of the allegations against Spacey broke last month. The director quickly realized the film would almost certainly be a disaster with Spacey attached, but he said he didn’t go into panic mode. “It sends a message to predators — you can’t get away with this anymore,” she told EW.

Source: Huffington Post November 29, 2017 18:21 UTC