Brady Corbet 's The Brutalist , his first feature since 2018's Vox Lux , has assembled an all-star cast. Adrien Brody , Felicity Jones , Guy Pearce , and Joe Alwyn will star in the upcoming decades-spanning drama. In addition to Brody, Jones, Pearce, and Alwyn, the film will also star Raffey Cassidy ( White Noise ), Isaach De Bankolé ( Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ), Alessandro Nivola ( Face/Off ), Stacy Martin ( Nymphomaniac ), Jonathan Hyde ( Titanic ), and Peter Polycarpou ( Evita ). The Brutalist will span thirty years in the life of Hungarian architect László Toth (Brody), who flees postwar Europe with his wife Erzsébet (Jones) to build a new life in America. There, their lives are forever changed by a wealthy, enigmatic client (Pearce). The film has been in the works for years, and was greatly delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic; in 2020, it was reported that it was set to star Joel Edgerton , Marion Cotillard , Vanessa Kirby , and Sebastian Stan , all of whom ...