New York City became major characters through world building, evoking the unstable mental states of Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck and Edward Norton’s Lionel Essrog.
Check out our video interview with the three-time Oscar nominee, who does not think small: he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in this literary adaptation.
Norton has thrown his considerable gifts at an ambitious movie that is all his, and all in.
Norton’s long-gestating adaptation is overlong and imperfect, but shows evidence that this dormant genre still has legs.
From “Little Women” to “The Goldfinch” and “I Heard You Paint Houses,” fall movie season is a great excuse to revisit literary classics.
Warner Bros. will release Norton’s Jonathan Lethem adaptation on November 1 after stops at the Toronto and New York film festivals.
The actor and filmmaker says his passion project is “especially resonant when you’re going through moments that are giving people deep dismay.”
Norton also stars in his reworking of the Jonathan Lethem detective novel of the same name.
Norton’s adaptation of the 1999 crime novel of the same name is set to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Edward Norton’s new film took a tragic turn last night in New York City.
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