The Brutalist (2024)

[Darth Marcus]

Source: Deadline

‘Vox Lux’ Director Brady Corbet Sets Artist Drama ‘The Brutalist’ As Next Project
by Peter White - September 6, 2018 3:45am

Vox Lux director Brady Corbet has set period drama The Brutalist as his next project following the world premiere of the Natalie Portman-fronted music drama.

The Brutalist will be Corbet’s third feature following Vox Lux and The Childhood of a Leader. He will reteam with Andrew Lauren Productions (ALP) on the drama.

The film chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision. The story opens in 1947, as a Hungarian-born Jewish architect emigrates to the United States. Initially forced to toil in poverty, he soon wins a contract that will change the course of his life.

ALP will develop the script with Corbet and finance the feature. The film will be produced by Andrew Lauren and D.J. Gugenheim for ALP and Three Six Zero’s Brian Young.

Corbet said, “I am thrilled to collaborate for the second time with everyone at Andrew Lauren Productions. ALP’s vision for the future of the medium is unique and uniquely ambitious; the ideal partners to bring this epic story to life.”

ALP chairman Andrew Lauren said, “We had such an incredible experience working with our good friend Brady on Vox Lux that it was only natural and fitting to collaborate with him on his next film. He is a phenomenal filmmaker with a brilliant career ahead of him.”

ALP president D.J. Gugenheim added, “Brady’s eye for film and exceptional artistic vision makes him the exact kind of filmmaker we want to be working with.”

Corbet is represented by WME and Three Six Zero. ALP is represented by attorney David Boyle.

[Cremildo]

Another interesting project. Corbet is shaping up to become a major director.

[jacobsever]

Childhood of a Leader was one of my most anticipated films the year it came out...and I still haven't seen it.

[Impossible]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

Childhood of a Leader was one of my most anticipated films the year it came out...and I still haven't seen it.

Me too, I was hugely disappointed in it though.

It should've been something really great, but to call it 'slight' would be an understatement.

Still worth a watch though as it is a beautiful looking film.

[Cremildo]

Corbet talks about this project:

This is a film that tries to take a look at what it would mean to lose everything that you’ve built, what it would do to your psyche. When we think of what was lost during wartime we usually think about the human lives that were lost, but we rarely think of the livelihoods that were lost.

[...]

Right now because of the ongoing immigration crisis in Europe and in America a different crisis, I think it’s very, very important to reflect on the immigrant experience; and of course with anti-Semitism strangely on a rise again, it is important for us to look at its origins.

[Cremildo]

Filming is scheduled to begin early 2021.

[Himmel]

Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard, Mark Rylance, Sebastian Stan & Vanessa Kirby Join ‘The Brutalist’

[Heinz-Klett]

Shooting has started with an entirely new cast:

[...] production has now finally kicked off albeit with a new ensemble.

Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce will now lead the film, co-written by Corbet and his partner Mona Fastvold, which chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision.

Director of Photography Lol Crawley, BSC, Editor Dávid Jancsó, HSE and Costume Designer Kate Forbes, have teamed up on Brady Corbet’s latest feature THE BRUTALIST.

https://thefilmstage.com/brady-corbe...with-new-cast/
https://luxartists.net/lol-crawley-d...the-brutalist/

[Cremildo]

Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn are among cast confirmed

[Cremildo]

Focus Features has bought international rights

Filming was delayed due to the pandemic and finally kicked in the spring of 2023 in Hungary.

[BluBonnet]

[OnlyJapantown]

Well at least it has an intermission, if it's going to be that long. Killers of the Flower Moon had me fidgeting in my seat for the last hour.

[eightslicesofpie]

Hell yeah let's go

[BluBonnet]

‘The Brutalist’ Director Brady Corbet on Making His 215-Minute 70mm Epic and Including an Intermission

Brady Corbet, the director of “The Brutalist,” is still trying to figure out the best way to deliver the print for his film to the Venice Film Festival, where it will debut next month. That’s because the epic 215-minute story of a Holocaust survivor forging a new life in America will be shown in 70mm, which means that all 26 reels of film will need to travel in four Pelican cases from Los Angeles to Italy, weighing in at approximately 300 pounds.

“We may have to buy a couple of plane tickets,” he said, shortly after Venice unveiled its lineup. “We have to figure out the best way to get it through customs in order to hand deliver it in time.”

But Corbet has been resisting the digital tide for years, having shot his two previous films, “Vox Lux” and “The Childhood of a Leader,” on celluloid. That’s become something of a rarity as the industry has moved towards sleeker, cheaper digital cameras. And it’s a complete anomaly in the case of producing movies in 70mm, which may be experiencing a renaissance with big studio productions like Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two,” but is rarely, if ever, an option for independent filmmakers like Corbet. But when he first started planning the movie seven years ago with his co-writer and wife Mona Fastvold, Corbet felt that the format was perfect for a story that begins in World War II and concludes in the 1980s — with a substantial chunk of it taking place in the 1950s. That was an era when classic Hollywood productions like “Vertigo,” “North By Northwest,” “The Ten Commandments,” “White Christmas” and “The Robe” were routinely filmed in VistaVision, CinemaScope and other widescreen formats.

[BluBonnet]

[BluBonnet]

Adrien Brody explains why The Brutalist "needs an intermission"

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Adrien Brody explains why The Brutalist "needs an intermission"

“Because it’s ****ing long”

[Cremildo]

Metacritic

[UltraMario9]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Metacritic

Wow.

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by UltraMario9

Wow.

Yep.

An early forerunner to sweep awards from critics associations.