Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Writer-director Edward Norton has begun principal photography in New York City on the noir thriller Motherless Brooklyn.
Norton stars in the 1950s-set film with Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Willem Dafoe, Alec Baldwin, Cherry Jones, Ethan Suplee, Leslie Mann, Josh Pais, Fisher Stevens, Michael K. Williams and Robert Wisdom. The movie was inspired by Jonathan Lethem's novel by the same name.