To Be Continued…

The 1973 kidnapping of Getty Oil heir J. Paul Getty III isn't the only fascinating story of this blessed and blighted family.

If all goes according to plan, FX's Trust will have two more seasons to explore the House of Getty. Creator-writer–executive producer Simon Beaufoy and director–exec producer Danny Boyle have mapped out three seasons for the series, which debuts March 25.

While the first season explores the kidnapping and digs deeply into the world tycoon J. Paul Getty Sr. created at Sutton Place, his mansion outside London, the second season will delve into the legendary miser's childhood and his toxic relationship with his parents.

Getty's mother, Sarah C. Getty, had "the keys to the bankroll," when her husband, George, died in 1930, Beaufoy explains. "In the '30s and '40s that was very unusual. She was the power behind the throne. And [she and her son] had a very weird relationship. He had to keep asking her for money."

She finally gave him money — just when the stock market crashed. Getty lost it all. "She was furious with him," Beaufoy says. "He was always running to catch up with her, to win her affections, her love and respect. She barely gave him any."

The planned third season, assuming FX gives the green light, will cover the years after J. Paul Getty III's kidnapping. More years of "misery, suicide, heroin addiction, crippling psychiatric problems," Beaufoy recounts. But also triumph, as many of the family members slayed their demons.

Even Getty III, who became a quadriplegic after a 1981 drug overdose, found purpose in rehabilitation. While Boyle plans to bring Harris Dickinson back to play Getty III as an older man, he doesn't see Donald Sutherland returning as a younger J. Paul Getty Sr. in the second season.

"Donald, sadly, won't be able to play that part," Boyle says. "Though he'd do pretty much anything else. But even that's beyond Donald's super power."

This article originally appeared in emmy magazine, Issue No. 2, 2018