Deconstructing ‘The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet Payday As Architecture Epic Dances To Profit
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Before Oscar ballots were due yesterday, The Brutalist director/writer/producer Brady Corbet sent a loud and clear message on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast just how indie his 10x Oscar nominated movie The Brutalist was, declaring that he made “zero dollars” on the three-hour with intermission epic.
And not just “zero dollars” on The Brutalist, but his 2018 Natalie Portman tortured pop star drama Vox Lux as well, which NEON acquired U.S.
on and grossed only $727K domestic, $1.4M worldwide. 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. “I’ve never ever known a director not to have his salary be a line item in any kind of production budget,” says one razor sharp filmmaker rep.
Here’s what we sussed: To his point, Corbet wasn’t paid a Ridley Scott $12M+ salary, but he was paid somethin’. The Brutalist was a non-DGA signatory production, shot in Europe with non-DGA crews over 33 days in Hungary during Covid.
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