Storyline
A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Film Status
Post-production

Release Date
TBA

Genre
Biography, Drama

Directed by
Michael Grandage

Writers
A. Scott Berg (based on the book by), John Logan (screenplay)

Cast



PLOT 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 (Law) 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.