Billy Zane Channels Marlon Brando’s ‘The Godfather’ in Biopic

Billy Zane continues to bring the late Marlon Brando back from the dead with his new film.

Zane, 58, produces and stars in the upcoming film Waltzing with Brandoa biopic that follows Brando in the 1970s and offers a glimpse of the Oscar-winning legend in Last Tango in Paris And The godfather.

A new production still from Waltzing with Brando – now making its world premiere at the Turin Film Festival in November – features Zane looking the spitting image of Brando’s Don Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The godfather.

The new film by director and co-writer Bill Fishman is an adaptation of Bernard Judge’s 2011 book of the same name. The book tells the story “of a young architect from Los Angeles who, quite unexpectedly, finds himself on an unpopulated atoll in the South Pacific. lived with his client, Marlon Brando.”

Judge, who died in 2021, was an award-winning architect whose innovations in construction focused on environmental sustainability. Brando hired him to build a house on the twelve-island atoll of Tetiaroa, Tahiti. In May, Zane and fellow producers Fishman and Dean Bloxom announced that they have pledged to send 5% of the film’s proceeds to Tetiaroa residents.

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Next to the Titanic actor, Waltzing with Brando costars Tia Carrere, Richard Dreyfuss, Jon Heder, Alaina Huffman, Rob Corddry and more.

“The production team was so on point,” Zane captioned some behind-the-scenes photos on Instagram that previewed the film in May. One photo showed the actor with Brando’s eerily similar hair and costumes, sitting in a chair labeled “Marlon Brando.”

The Torino Film Festival takes place from November 22 to 30 in Turin, Italy Waltzing with Brando will be the closing film. Also one of Zane’s completed upcoming projects is INT.HALLWAY/NIGHTin which he plays the leading role and directs. This is his first film as a director since 2004 Big kiss.