As part of the Mill Valley Festival Film Festival‘s “Closing Night,” Edward Norton‘s “Motherless Brooklyn” screened. Paired with James Mangold‘s “Ford v Ferrari” for the night’s double feature, it was the awards contender’s Western United States premiere, marking Norton’s first time at the popular Northern California festival since “Birdman.” Based on Jonathan Lethem‘s eponymous novel, “Motherless Brooklyn” is finally seeing the light of day two decades after Norton signed on to adapt it in 1999.

“It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but I was busy with other things,” Norton told said. “It took a while to finish writing it, and then there’s a very special cast in this. I wanted specific people, so I waited ’till I could get them.”

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