Brody said of his new company, Fable House. “The goal is to develop the material that I crave that doesn’t necessarily come to me,” Mr. Brody formed his own production company, which has $50 million in funding from a Nigerian energy magnate, Kola Aluko, and an anonymous Chinese investor it aims to make movies with significant box-office prospects, sometimes in partnership with studios. (Producers hope to introduce it at either the Cannes or Berlin film festival next year.) A few months ago, Mr. Brody has six independent films in various states of completion, including “The Septembers of Shiraz,” a movie about an affluent Jewish family caught in Iran’s Islamic Revolution that has “awards run” written all over it. “I’d love to be doing movies with scope and scale, but as much as I do think studios appreciate me as an actor, they are not coming directly to me,” he said, speaking from a nook at the Sunset Marquis Hotel here.
Brody seems to have decided to roll with the punches. But this is reality, darn it, and instead of wallowing in frustration, Mr. Brody would most likely be able to play any part he wanted. In an alternate universe - one where Hollywood lets men with character-actor faces play romantic leads, and studios make casting decisions based on talent and not foreign box-office algorithms - Mr.
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