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    The Treatment

    Edward Norton: 'Motherless Brooklyn'

    Edward Norton, writer, director and star of 'Motherless Brooklyn', discusses the time-traveling and imperatives that attracted him to this private eye story.

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    By Elvis Mitchell • Nov 7, 2019 • 28m Listen

    In 1999, Edward Norton read the novel 'Motherless Brooklyn' by Jonathan Lethem, and thought there could be a movie in it. Twenty years later, he brought it to the screen as writer, director and star, and shifted the setting to take place four decades earlier. He discusses the time-traveling and the imperatives, moral and otherwise, that attracted him to a private eye story.

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      Elvis Mitchell

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      Edward Norton

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