Watch: First Clip From 'Genius' Starring Colin Firth & Jude Law
It's not easy to make the task of writing cinematic, and I can only imagine that doing the same for editing is even more difficult. But Michael Grandage, the screenwriter behind "The Madness Of King George," will attempt to do just that with this directorial debut, "Genius."
The film centers around editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth) and "Look Homeward, Angel" author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law), and the creative relationship between the pair. Perkins, who also worked with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, is regarded as an important figure in the lives of those writers, helping them cut through the clutter to find their voice. But as anyone who has read Wolfe knows, his beautiful prose is already a thicket of words to begin with, and this clip from EW shows how the movie depicts Perkins' valuable insights.
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“I think [Perkins’] genius was that he had great instinct for what...