Per Deadline Edward Norton will return
to directing with the adaptation of Jonathan Lethem novel Motherless Brooklyn.
Besides directing the pic, Norton will also lead it as “a lonely private
detective afflicted with Tourette Syndrome, who tries to solve the murder of
his mentor and only friend. Armed only with few clues and an obsessive mind,
Lionel slowly unravels closely-guarded secrets that have major ramifications.
It leads him through Harlem jazz clubs, Brooklyn slums and sets him against
thugs and Gotham power brokers to honor his friend and save a woman who might
his own salvation.”
Production is set to slated later
this year in N.Y.
Motherless Brooklyn Book Synopsis
Via Amazon:
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very
own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive
him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in
startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St.
Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo
service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of
Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are,
well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel’s
colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim’s
widow skips town. Lionel’s world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who
has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while
trying to keep the words straight in his head.
Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original homage to the classic detective
novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment