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‘The Brutalist’ Filmmaker Brady Corbet Says Making 70mm 3 1/2-Hour Epic For Under $10 Million Meant “Educating People On The Ground”
'The Brutalist' filmmaker Brady Corbet details how he shot his 3 1/2 hour epic for under $10M.
When it comes to stretching a production dollar, Warner Bros., who just went through the exercise of spending $190M+ on Joker: Folie à Deux might want to have a conversation with filmmaker Brady Corbet who shot his 3 1/2 hour Venice Film Festival winning epic The Brutalist for between $6M-$8M. The original post-World War II set feature follows Hungarian-born Jewish architect László Tóth (Oscar winner Adrien Brody), who arrives to America and finds newfound success when his talents are hired by a rich real estate tycoon, Harrison Lee Van Buren (played by Guy Pearce). “It came at a great personal, physical expense at times because the number of sleepless nights in the last seven years,” Corbet explains about making this movie post his 2018 Natalie Portman popstar-in-crisis pic Vox Lux, “ You have to have blind faith for getting this thing which is completely malnourished across the finish line.”
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