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Image: Max Perkins (Colin Firth) and Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) lean over the novelist’s unwieldy manuscript. (Marc Brenner/Roadside Attractions) Screenwriter John Logan has worked on some big films. From Skyfall to Gladiator, Logan has learned well how...

Image: Max Perkins (Colin Firth) and Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) lean over the novelist’s unwieldy manuscript. (Marc Brenner/Roadside Attractions)

Screenwriter John Logan has worked on some big films. From Skyfall to Gladiator, Logan has learned well how the movie business works. So he knew his latest film, Genius, would be a tough sell.

“This movie is the worst Hollywood pitch in the history of the world,” he admits.

That’s because it’s about editing books. The film follows the relationship between the editor Maxwell Perkins – famous for discovering Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald – and a brash young writer named Thomas Wolfe.

The Editor’s Epic: Maxwell Perkins Makes For An Unlikely Big-Screen Hero

June 13, 2016

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