After 15 years, Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn will finally see the light of day. Deadline reports that Norton will star in and direct the Jonathan Lethem adaptation, with Brett Ratner set to produce.
Lethem's 1999 National Book Critic's Circle Award winning novel is set in the 1950's, and centers around Lionel Essrog, a Brooklyn dwelling detective with Tourette's. Here's Random House's summary of the plot:
Filming will commence in late 2014 in New York.
[via Vulture]