By Anthony D'Alessandro

Editorial Director/Box Office Editor

When it comes to stretching production budgets, Warner Bros., which recently spent more than $190 million on Joker: Folie à Deux, could be in the conversation with filmmaker Brady Corbet, who shot his 3.5-hour, Venice Film Festival-winning epic The Brutalist for between $6 million and $8 million.

The original feature film, set after World War II, follows Hungarian-born Jewish architect László Tóth (Academy Award winner Adrien Brody), who comes to America and finds newfound success when he is hired by wealthy real estate magnate Harrison Lee Van Buren (played by Guy Pearce). However, all is not as great as it seems. Felicity Jones plays László’s wheelchair-bound wife Erzsébet, who arrives in the United States sometime after Tóth’s time.