When your creativity comes out all at once. Genius is a 2016 biopic about renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, who oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is directed by Michael Grandage, and written by John Logan, and stars Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, and Dominic West.