Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get bloody'

By Xan Brooks

 

‘I was offered Fight Club, but I’d just come off tour and couldn’t mentally tie my own shoelaces’ … Edward Norton right, with Thom Yorke. Composite: AP/Rex/Guardian Imaging

 

In Edward Norton’s new film, Motherless Brooklyn, a keening ballad blows in and out, affecting the narrative and painting the prevailing mood with a deep shade of blue.

 

It’s unmistakably the work of Radiohead’s frontman, Thom Yorke.

 

Some film songs (Stayin’ Alive, The Harder They Come) sit so snugly with the tale that one can barely see the join.

 

Others (Mrs Robinson, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head) drop like gaudy visitors from another world.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/29/edward-norton-and-thom-yorke-the-last-thing-we-wanted-was-for-it-to-get-bloody

Both of these guys are hugely talented, and I am waiting to see this film. Yorke is a genius with an absolutely haunting voice. Norton is a great actor, who I hear is nearly impossible to work with. So, it is appropriate that he directed himself!