genius
- Release Date
- June 10, 2016
- Director
- Michael Grandage
- Cast
- Colin Firth , Nicole Kidman , Jude Law , Guy Pearce , Dominic West
- Runtime
- 104
- Main Genre
- Biography
- Studio
- Lionsgate
- Writers
- John Logan , A. Scott Berg
- Tagline
- Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.
Summary
Based on the National Book Award winning biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, by A. Scott Berg, Genius centers on the real-life relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe (Fassbender) and renowned editor Max Perkins (Firth). Finding fame and critical success at a young age, Wolfe is a blazing talent with a larger-than-life personality to match. Perkins is one of the most respected and well-known literary editors of all time, discovering such iconic novelists as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Wolfe and Perkins develop a tender, complex friendship. Transformative and irrepressible, this friendship will change the lives of these brilliant, but very different men forever.
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