Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with A Different Man, A24’s dark comedy from writer and director Aaron Schimberg. The film, which won Best Picture at the Gotham Awards earlier this month, stars Sebastian Stan as Edward, an aspiring actor who undergoes a radical new experimental medical procedure to transform his appearance drastically.

The procedure is a success, and Edward changes his persona and name to Guy, a photogenic rising star who seems to have it made in the shade.

Edwards’s former neighbor, Ingrid (Renate Reinsve), finds inspiration in his life to create an Off Broadway play. Edward auditions for the role of a lifetime, a role he believes he is the only person on earth who could possibly understand. ​Edward is then eclipsed by Oswald (Adam Pearson), a character who propels the story into more complex and layered territory...