Movie:genius
- NewsGwynne Watkins
Jude Law Gets His Big Break in 'Genius' Clip
“I wasn’t even gonna come. I prefer to get my rejections in the mail,” aspiring writer Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) tells publisher Max Perkins (Colin Firth) in this clip from Genius, opening in theaters on Friday. But Wolfe has a surprise coming: Perkins, who also discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, actually recognizes that Wolfe could be a great American writer. Based on a true story, Genius chronicles the friendship between the hard-partying Wolfe, author of the 1929 novel Look Ho
- NewsKevin Polowy
The Talented Mr. Wolfe: Jude Law Shines as Iconic Writer in 'Genius' Trailer (Exclusive)
As far as American literary giants go, Thomas Wolfe is one of the biggest. Maybe not Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald big, but Wolfe was hugely influential nonetheless. The upcoming biopic Genius will shed some new light on the author’s life and works (and propensity to go waaaaaay over word-count limits), and you can watch the first trailer for it above.
