Guy Pearce and Dominic West Join Michael Grandage's GENIUS Film

The Daily Mail reports that Guy Pearce and Dominic West have joined Jude Law and Colin Firth in stage director Michael Grandage's first film GENIUS.

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Pearce will play F. Scott Fitzgerald and West will portray Ernest Hemingway, with Firth as Max Perkins, the New York book editor who oversaw both authors, along with Thomas Wolfe, to be played by Jude Law.

Also in the cast are Nicole Kidman as Aline Bernstein, Wolfe's lover, and Laura Linney as Perkins's wife Louise Sanders.

John Logan wrote the screenplay based on A. Scott Berg's book, charting the relationship between Wolfe and his editor, which "changed both men forever".

The Michael Grandage Company is producing with help from James Bierman and Logan; Tim Bevan is executive producer.

GENIUS will begin filming this fall in the US and the UK.

Pearce has appeared on the big screen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, L.A. Confidential, Memento, The King's Speech, The Hurt Locker, Prometheus, Iron Man 3 and more.

West has appeared on Broadway in Design For Living and can currently be seen on the big screen in Pride. He has recently starred on TV in The Affair, the movie Burton and Taylor, and the series The Hour, The Wire and more. Among his West End credits are The Seagull, As You Like It, The Voysey Inheritance, Rock 'n' Roll, Life is a Dream, Butley, and Othello and My Fair Lady at the Crucible.

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