Focus Features has purchased international rights to Brady Corbett’s The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn. diverse to learn.
Corbett, a Berlinale jury member, wrote the film with Mona Fastvold (“The Next World”), a Swedish film director who is also his wife. The film chronicles 30 years of the life of visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet, who fled post-war Europe in 1947 and witnessed the birth of modern America. Laszlo initially suffers poverty and humiliation, but the architect’s genius soon comes to the attention of charming industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren, whose dark influence threatens to destroy everything Laszlo and his wife have built.
The cast is completed by Raffey Cassidy (“White Noise”), Isaac De Pancoli (“Casino Royale”), Alessandro Nivola (“The Many Saints of Newark”), Stacy Martin (“Nymphomaniac Vol I”), Emma Laird ( “The Mayor of Kingstown), Jonathan Hyde (“Titanic”), and Peter Policarpou (“Evita”). Filming was delayed due to the pandemic and finally began in the spring of 2023 in Hungary.
The cast of “The Brutalist” includes Lol Crowley (“White Noise”), composer Daniel Blumberg (“Next World”), costume designer Kate Forbes (“Fair Play”), editor David Jancso (“Next World”), and production designer Jodi Becker (“Next World”). Brokeback Mountain”).
Producers are Andrew Laurent, DJ Guggenheim, Brian Young, Claudia Smija, Trevor Matthews and Nick Gordon. “The Brutalist” is repped by Protagonist in international markets with CAA Media Finance handling domestic sales.
“The Brutalist” follows Corbett’s “The Childhood of a Commander,” which won Best Debut Film at the Venice Film Festival, and “Vox Lux,” which starred Natalie Portman and Jude Law and premiered at Venice. Corbett, an actor-turned-director, directed the short film “Protect You + Me,” which premiered at Sundance.