Billy Zane continues to bring the late Marlon Brando back from the dead with his new film.
Zane, 58, is producing and starring in the upcoming film Waltz with Brandobiopic that follows Brando through the 1970s, offering insight into the Oscar-winning legend in Last Tango in Paris and Godfather.
New production since Waltz with Brando — which is now set to have its world premiere at the Turin Film Festival in November — features Zane looking like the spitting image of Brando’s Don Vito Corleone in the Francis Ford Coppola film Godfather.
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The new film by director and co-writer Bill Fishman is an adaptation of Bernard Judge’s book of the same name from 2011. The book is about “a young architect from Los Angeles who quite unexpectedly finds himself living on an uninhabited atoll in the South Pacific with his client, Marlon Brando.”
(Left-right:) Marlon Brando; Billy Zane records “Waltzing with Brando”.
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Judge, who died in 2021, was an award-winning architect whose building innovations focused on environmental sustainability. Brando hired him to build a house on Tahiti’s 12-island atoll of Tetiaroa. In May, Zane and fellow producers Fishman and Dean Bloxom announced that they had pledged to send 5% of the film’s proceeds to the people of Tetiaro.
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Except on Titanic actor, Waltz with Brando actors Tia Carrera, Richard Dreyfuss, Jon Heder, Alaina Huffman, Rob Corddry and others.
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Billy Zane in ‘Waltz with Brando’.
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“The production team was so spot on,” Zane captioned behind-the-scenes photos on Instagram giving a sneak peek of the film in May. One photo shows the actor in an uncannily similar hairstyle and costume to Brando’s, sitting in a chair marked “Marlon Brando.”
The Turin Film Festival takes place from November 22 to 30 in Turin, Italy, where Waltz with Brando there will be a film on the final night. Among Zane’s completed upcoming projects is i INTERIOR CORRIDOR/NIGHTin which he acts and directs. This is his first film as a director since 2004 a big kiss.
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