Focus Options has purchased worldwide rights to Brady Corbet‘s “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Man Pearce and Joe Alwyn, Selection has realized.
Corbet, who sits on the Berlinale jury, penned the movie with Mona Fastvold (“The World to Come”), a Swedish filmmaker who can be his spouse. The movie charts 30 years within the lives of visionary architect László Toth and his spouse, Erzsébet, who flee post-war Europe in 1947 and witness the delivery of contemporary America. László initially endures poverty and indignity, however the architect’s genius quickly catches the eye of charming industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren, whose darkish affect threatens to destroy all the pieces László and his spouse have constructed.
The forged is accomplished by Raffey Cassidy (“White Noise”), Isaach De Bankolé (“On line casino Royale”), Alessandro Nivola (“The Many Saints of Newark”), Stacy Martin (“Nymphomaniac Vol I”), Emma Laird (“Mayor of Kingstown”), Jonathan Hyde (“Titanic”) and Peter Polycarpou (“Evita”). Filming was delayed because of the pandemic and eventually kicked within the spring of 2023 in Hungary.
“The Brutalist” crew contains Lol Crawley (“White Noise”), composer Daniel Blumberg (“The World to Come”), costume designer Kate Forbes (“Honest Play”), editor Dávid Jancsó (“The World to Come”) and manufacturing designer Judy Becker (“Brokeback Mountain”).
Producers are Andrew Laurent, D.J. Gugenheim, Brian Yung, Klaudia Smieja, Trevor Matthews and Nick Gordon. “The Brutalist” is represented by Protagonist in worldwide markets with CAA Media Finance dealing with home gross sales.
“The Brutalist” follows Corbet’s options “The Childhood of a Chief,” which received greatest debut movie on the Venice Movie Pageant, and “Vox Lux,” which starred Natalie Portman and Jude Legislation and debuted at Venice. An actor-turned-director, Corbet additionally beforehand directed the brief movie “Defend You + Me,” which performed at Sundance.
