Forgot about Genius, did you? It can be forgiven, because we've heard very little about it for awhile now, despite the film boasting a script by John Logan(Skyfall) and at one point having both Sean Penn and Michael Fassbender attached to play a pair of real-life literary icons. But over the last year there have been some changes, as Penn is out and Colin Firth has stepped in.
Penn to Firth is what I like to refer to as a "lateral move", so the project still sounds pretty darn good. Genius is based on A. Scott Berg's National Book Award-winning biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, and follows the relationship between writer Thomas Wolfe(Fassbender) and editor Max Perkins(Firth). Wolfe was an incredible writer, and Perkins was a superstar in his own right, having discovered both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Wolfe and Perkins fought all the time over the author's style, which led to a falling out that lasted for years.
Michael Grandage will make his directorial, with filming set to begin early in 2014.
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