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Brady Corbet’s touched down astatine Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting show connected Thursday wherever he teased specifications of his adjacent characteristic movie pursuing his Oscar-winning 2024 title The Brutalist.
“My caller movie is simply a movie that is benignant of astir American mysticism and nan history of nan occult successful America and I’ve been reference tons and tons of worldly astir nan migration of nan cultist belief systems and structures,” Corbet told an assemblage astatine nan Light House Cinema connected Thursday. “I’ve started moving pinch this fascinating feline called Mitch Horowitz, who is an occultist historiographer of America.”
It was intimated that audiences could expect this adjacent movie to besides beryllium a lengthy one: The Brutalist clocked successful astatine 3 hours and 35 minutes from a 165-page script. The book from Corbet’s newest film, he told nan audience, is 200 pages long.
When pressed astir really precise his scripts are and whether he leaves room for improvisation, Corbet said: “I’ve ever been a small constricted because of really short nan shoots are. So, Vox Lux was 22 days and The Childhood of a Leader was 24 days…The Brutalist was 33 days but it was a 165 page script.”
He continued: “I would fto group do immoderate they wanted for a fewer takes but I’ve ne'er really had clip for it. But I’m not against it. I usually effort to person a speech pinch everyone successful arsenic loving a measurement arsenic imaginable wherever I say, ‘If you person immoderate ideas, show maine now’ because erstwhile we commencement shooting…Also I don’t deliberation I’m a tyrant aliases thing astatine all. I deliberation hopefully it’s nan opposite. But I’m very focused erstwhile I’m nether those conditions. You person to be. And frankly, they don’t want to activity pinch personification who wouldn’t be.”
Corbet said his latest movie is simply a 50-day sprout which he is “so happy about” but revealed nan book is 200 pages. “It’s fundamentally two, 25-day shoots for 100 pages,” he said. “So, I don’t know. I’ll study backmost successful a fewer months
During nan wide-ranging conversation, which was moderated by A24’s Rose Garnett, Corbet discussed his attack to writing, his trade and why he thinks filmmakers are becoming “less and little dangerous” successful nan existent marketplace.
“When I was increasing up, group wanted to watch awesome films and I’m not that old, truthful it wasn’t that agelong ago,” he said. “There was an assemblage for great, extremist movies. Even if we look astatine a movie like The English Patient, you know, that was a really celebrated movie. It was besides a very poetic 1 and nan very standard of it was benignant of insane. So I grew up pinch examples of things that were celebrated and well-received.”
He continued: “I deliberation that fundamentally arsenic a consequence of nan financial situation successful 2008 and besides because of what’s happened pinch nan consolidation of powerfulness and streaming…that things person go little and little vulnerable by those deals.”
Corbet added: “I’m not trying to beryllium antagonistic because I really do deliberation nan pendulum is swinging nan different measurement already. But we person been surviving during a infinitesimal successful clip complete nan past 15 aliases 20 years wherever location is little awesome stuff. And that is systemic. I only consciousness that for illustration I person nan authority to opportunity thing for illustration that because of really overmuch I watch. I watch bully stuff, I watch bad stuff, trash, arthouse and outhouse. I do each of those. And erstwhile I revisit films that made maine want to make film, they are still transcendent. So I americium tin of still being moved by thing really exceptional.”
Corbet cited Harry Lighton’s debut feature Pillion as “one of nan awesome films of past year.”
“The performances were astonishing and it reminded maine of a bygone era.”
Storyhouse runs April 16-17, 2026.
