John Logan’s script, based on A. Scott Berg’s biography about editor Max Perkins, is invested in the craft of words like few other movies nowadays.

Directed by Michael Grandage. With Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney. 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.

Genius is a 2016 British-American biographical drama film directed by Michael Grandage and written by John Logan , based on the 1978 National Book Award -winner Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg . The film stars Colin Firth , Jude Law , Nicole Kidman , Dominic West , and Guy Pearce . It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival .

From Academy Award-nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award-winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world-renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger-than-life literary giant Thomas Wolfe. Based on the biography

Read Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune review of the literary drama starring Colin Firth and Jude Law. 2 stars.

A look at the bond between author Thomas Wolfe and his editor devolves into prestige pandering

Jude Law talks playing the out-there novelist Thomas Wolfe in "Genius," Michael Grandage's film debut, which also stars Colin Firth as Maxwell Perkins.

Colin Firth plays famed New York literary editor Max Perkins, with Jude Law as his most challenging author, Thomas Wolfe, in theater director Michael Grandage's feature debut.