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Deconstructing ‘The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet Payday As Oscar-Nominated Epic Dances To Profit
How much did Brady Corbet get paid on his 10x Oscar nominated 'The Brutalist'. Deadline assesses.
As brutal as Corbet’s payday sounds, we figured some clarity was needed as the filmmaker’s comments about his paycheck on the under $10M Hungarian/UK co-production tax credit shoot created some WTF of them own among sources. Deferring fees and betting on oneself is the indie way, and as Corbet has emphasized in his press tour for The Brutalist, every dollar was stretched in telling the story of a Hungarian WWII refugee architect (Adrien Brody) who comes to America where his brilliance is realized by an acerbic real estate tycoon (Guy Pearce). The filmmaker’s point in the Maron interview per sources, was simply to emphasize how challenging and cash-strapped it is to pull off indies films in a world where streamers and motion picture studios throw around $100M to top-shelf fare.
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