After earning widespread acclaim last year for his original score to Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria,” Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke will return to the movies this fall with an original song written for Edward Norton’s passion project “Motherless Brooklyn.” The crime drama, which Norton directed and stars in, is an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel of the same name.
Norton recently told Rolling Stone he put in a request for Yorke to write an original song for the project but never expected the musician would agree to it.“I didn’t presume he would do it,” Norton said.
“I wanted Thom to write an old-world melancholy ballad, and I wanted his voice to be the properties for [Norton’s character] Lionel’s voice.
But I sort of said to myself, ‘Yeah, you and everybody else in the world.’”Norton emailed Yorke the “Motherless Brooklyn” script to read as part of his pitch
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