Hollywood star Billy Zane transforms into Marlon Brando for new biopic.
Movie fans have been in awe by a magic transformation of an actor into Marlon Brando for a new biopic.
There are many Hollywood actors who are master of transformation, with Colin Farrell the most recent one to have done so for his role in acclaimed HBO series The Penguin.
But there’s a new actor ready to take the crown as perhaps the most unrecognizable transformation in recent years.
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Waltzing with Brando will depict the actor starring as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 gangster film, for which he won Best Actor at the Oscars, and film fans were taken aback when a still of this was released online.
This is not a picture of Brando from The Godfather, but actor Billy Zane playing Brando in The Godfather.
The casting of Zane, whose credits include Dead Calm and Titanic, has stunned Brando fans, who are in agreement that the actor looks exactly like him in the photo.
“You could’ve said this was a photo of Marlon Brando and I would’ve believed it,” one stunned social media user replied when the photo surfaced online, with many others agreeing that they believed the photo to be Brando when they first saw it.
One person wrote: “No way this is Billy Zane. I can’t recognise him,” with another concluding: “This might be the greatest casting of all time…”
Waltzing with Brando, written and directed by Bill Fishman, is described as “the little-known but absolutely true story of how Marlon Brando convinced the architect Bernard ‘Bernie’ Judge that, together, they could build the first ecologically perfect retreat on one of Tahiti’s tiny, uninhabited islands”.
The synopsis continues: “Brando believed that this great ecological experiment would inspire the world to create a better and more sustainable future,” the synopsis continues. “Thus, Bernie, the practical problem solver, and Brando, the temperamental dreamer, begin an incredible adventure and, along the way, become improbable friends. But will this dream ever come true?”
There is currently no release date for the film.
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Brando, whose other films included A Streetcar Named Desire, Guys & Dolls and On the Waterfront, died in 2004, aged 80.
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