In 2014 Grandage and Bierman started work on the feature film, "Genius", about the relationship between author Thomas Wolfe and his editor Max Perkins. The film, which is based on A. Scott Berg's biography "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius", has a screenplay by John Logan and is directed by Grandage. It stars Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce, Dominic West and Laura Linney. The film, produced by MGC, premiered at Berlin Film Festival in 2016 and was released on 16 June in the USA.