Edward Norton Unravels a Mystery in First Motherless Brooklyn Trailer

Edward Norton has shared the first trailer for Motherless Brooklyn, the actor/director/screenwriters upcoming adaptation of Jonathan Lethems acclaimed novel.

On Wednesday, Rolling Stone premiered Thom Yorkes Daily Battles, the musical centerpiece of Motherless Brooklyn; Wynton Marsalis also contributes a jazz arrangement of the Radiohead singers new song for the film. Yorkes rendition soundtracks the first trailer, which finds Nortons private eye unraveling a mystery following the death of his mentor.

Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, Motherless Brooklynfollows Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a lonely private detective living with Tourette Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis), the films synopsis states.

Armed only with a few clues and the engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely-guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.In a mystery that carries him from gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem to the hard-edged slums of Brooklyn and, finally, into the gilded halls of New Yorks power brokers, Lionel contends with thugs, corruption and the most dangerous man in the city to honor his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation.

Following its premiere at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and closing slot at the 2019 New York Film Festival,Motherless Brooklyn will open in theaters November 1st.

To have [Yorke] write a song for the movie in response to absorbing what the movie and the character are aiming at is a very different thing, Norton told Rolling Stone. Its like Barbra Streisand and Memories forThe Way We Were;sometimes it can define a thing. Like Lady Gaga, what those guys did with Shallow in [A Star Is Born], thats a stunning song that rises up in the film and out of the film. It rises organically out of the story of the film and it gives you shivers, its really a special thing when that happens.