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‘A Different Man’: Read The Screenplay For Aaron Schimberg’s Gotham Awards Best Picture Winner
A Different Man, from writer and director Aaron Schimberg and starring Sebastian Stan, won Best Picture at the Gotham Awards.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with A Different Man, A24 ’s dark comedy from writer and director Aaron Schimberg. The film, which won Best Picture at the Gotham Awards earlier this month, stars Sebastian Stan as Edward, an aspiring actor who undergoes a radical new experimental medical procedure to transform his appearance drastically. Schimberg’s film puts a fresh spin on the age-old question of identity, joining a cinematic tradition that includes the haunting masks of Teshigahara’s The Face of Another, the shocking transplants of Frankenheimer’s Seconds, the face-swaps of John Woo’s Face/Off, and the twisted experiments of Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In.
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