Genius - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Genius"
Genius (2016)
Timing:
1:44 (104 min)
6.5/10
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Film crew
Director
Michael Grandage
Director
Producer
James Bierman
Producer
Michael Grandage
Producer
Tracey Seaward
Producer
Executive Producer
James J. Bagley
Executive Producer
A. Scott Berg
Executive Producer
Tim Bevan
Executive Producer
Nik Bower
Executive Producer
Tim Christian
Executive Producer
Ivan Dunleavy
Executive Producer
Arielle Tepper Madover
Executive Producer
Casting
Editor
Chris Dickens
Editor
Art Direction
Alex Baily
Art Direction
Gareth Cousins
Art Direction
Costume Design
Jane Petrie
Costume Design
Production Design
Mark Digby
Production Design
Set Decoration
Michelle Day
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Christine Blundell
Makeup Artist
Laura Morse
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Adam Cork
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Ben Davis
Director of Photography
Assistant Art Director
Rebecca White
Assistant Art Director
Screenplay
Novel
A. Scott Berg
Novel
Foley Artist
Jack Stew
Foley Artist
Andrea King
Foley Artist
Book
A. Scott Berg
Book
Foley Mixer
Glen Gathard
Foley Mixer
Jemma Riley-Tolch
Foley Mixer
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Nathaniel De'Lineadeus
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Gaffer
John Higgins
Gaffer
Concept Artist
Elo Soode
Concept Artist
Conceptual Design
Elo Soode
Conceptual Design
Standby Property Master
Phil Bull
Standby Property Master
Assistant Foley Artist
Lilly Blazewicz
Assistant Foley Artist
What's left behind the scenes
- The biographical book by A. Scott Berg, “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius,” on which the film is based, was published in 1978 and won the prestigious National Book Award two years later.
- Nicole Kidman described Aline Bernstein, the role she played in "Genius," as a woman who was "dark-haired, fiery, and strong." "She should have been born in another era," the actress said. "I like characters like that."
- This is the third joint project for Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, and the first in which they do not play a married couple. The actors previously starred together in the war drama "Retribution" (Jonathan Teplitzky, 2013) and the thriller "Before I Go to Sleep" (Rowan Joffe, 2013). This is the second joint project for Kidman and Jude Law. In 2003, Kidman and Law starred together in Anthony Minghella's war drama "Cold Mountain."
- To get into the role, Jude Law visited the Thomas Wolfe House (1900-1938), a museum dedicated to the writer, in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.
- This is the directorial debut of Michael Grandage in cinema.
- Following "Genius," Nicole Kidman and Michael Grandage collaborated on the play "Photograph 51," which was staged at the "Noël Coward Theatre" in the West End (the western part of central London, where theatrical and concert life is concentrated). Kidman received the "Evening Standard Theatre Award" for her role in the play.
- The distribution company "Roadside Attractions" from Los Angeles, California, planned to premiere the film at the Berlin International Film Festival, which is held annually in February, and to begin theatrical release in July 2016. The company applied the exact same strategy to Bill Condon's film "Mr. Holmes" (2015), which also starred Laura Linney and received high praise from critics and audiences.
- Michael Fassbender was originally slated to play Thomas Wolfe, but due to scheduling conflicts and delays in the film's production, the actor was forced to leave the project. Jude Law took on the role of Wolfe.
- In 2007, the screenplay for the film "Genius" was included in the so-called "Black List" of the most promising, but unrealized, screenplays.
- According to the screenwriter, John Logan, who first read A. Scott Berg's novel in 1983, work on the film continued for 15 years.
- Jude Law and Michael Grandage had previously collaborated on theatrical productions of "Henry V" and "Hamlet".
- In reality, Eileen Bernstein was 20 years older than Thomas Wolfe. Nicole Kidman is only 5 and a half years older than Jude Law.
- The film's cast includes two Academy Award winners (Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth) and two nominees (Jude Law and Laura Linney).
- Throughout the film, Perkins, played by Colin Firth, appears wearing a hat. He removes it only once, when reading the writer’s posthumous letter at the very end of the film.
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