
Genius is a movie directed by Michael Grandage in 2016 and based on the book Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg, first published in 1978. The movie features Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, and others.
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Storyline
In New York City in 1929, Maxwell Perkins, a successful Scribner’s editor and discoverer of talented authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, lives in a cottage just outside the city with his wife and five daughters. One day, in his office, he reads the drafts of O Lost, a novel by Thomas Wolfe. Struck by the content, Perkins decides to publish it and begins to collaborate with the author.
Movie vs Book

Year
2016
Minutes
104
Movie Rate
6.60
Source: IMDb

Year
1978
Pages
512
Book Rate
8.66
S: Goodreads
Book
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Author: A. Scott Berg
Country: USA
First published in: 1978
Length: 512 pages
Genre: Biography
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Biopic movies have always been popular. The books they’re based on are an opportunity to delve into the lives of those characters.
“The movie will never be as good as the book, both because the book goes on longer and because books are internal.”
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