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Genius thread

posted 10 years ago by Mr-Dedlock
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Thought about starting a new thread for "Genius" to keep up with the latest developments.

Jude Law was recently spotted in Asheville, NC doing research on Thomas Wolfe.

Here is also the latest production info available.

Filming is now due to start in mid-October on Genius, the forthcoming feature starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Jude Law.

The drama, which will shoot in the UK and the US, explores the relationship between author Thomas Wolfe (Law) and renowned literary editor Max Perkins.

Acclaimed theatre director Michael Grandage is coming out from behind the proscenium to take the helm, calling the shots from a screenplay by Bond supremo and Penny Dreadful writer John Logan, who has adapted it from A Scott Berg’s biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius.

Logan also produces along with Grandage and James Bierman; the latter two founded The Michael Grandage Company in 2011.

http://www.theknowledgeonline.com/the-knowledge-bulletin/post/2014/07/ 02/Firth-Kidman-and-Law-get-set-for-Genius

"You were supposed to love me, werent you?", Nicole Kidman-Stoker 2013

[–] Mr-Dedlock 10 years ago

OMG I love her!

Laura Linney, who will join Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Jude Law in Genius, which will mark the film directorial debut of acclaimed theatre and opera director Michael Grandage. The movie, which is being produced by Grandage’s business partner James Bierman, is about Max Perkins, a legendary publishing editor who discovered authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who wrote The Yearling.

The film, written by John Logan, is based on a biography of Perkins by A. Scott Berg. Berg wrote that, in his day, Perkins was a hero in the book world.

Unless Kidman has dropped out I'm assuming Laura will play Firth's wife. What a cast this film has assembled.

Edit

It's been confirmed by Baz Bamigboy (dailymail editor) that Linney will play the role of Max Perkin's wife Louise Saunders.

"You were supposed to love me, werent you?", Nicole Kidman-Stoker 2013