Hollywood star looks the spitting image of Marlon Brando in new biopic – can you tell who it is?
MARLON Brando has been brought back to life with eerie precision in a first look at a biopic on the actor’s life – with a Hollywood star transforming to become him.
Billy Zane, who is most famed as Cal in the iconic 1997 movie Titanic, looks the spitting image of Brando in first look pictures of upcoming movie, Waltzing With Brando.
In the film, Zane turns into the Oscar-winning star as they follow Brando’s life through filming of The Godfather and Last Tango In Paris in 1972.
Brando would later win an Oscar for playing Vito Corleone, head of the crime family in The Godfather, but would refuse to accept the award in a bid to make a statement about mistreatment of Native Americans in the US.
In the picture, Billy Zane looks identical to Brando on set of the film, with the cigar-chomping character looking menacing in his office chair.
It’s a shot-for-shot image from the famous “offer he can’t refuse” scene, a chilling powerful offer and threat and one of the most quoted moments in Hollywood history.
Waltzing With Brando follows a lesser-known part of the star’s history, with him teaming up with architect Bernie Judge (played by Jon Heder) to try and build the world’s first ecologically perfect retreat on an uninhabited island off of Tahiti.
The film, which is based on Judge’s book of the same name, follows the pair’s journey between 1969 to 1974.
The official synopsis reads: “Brando believed that this great ecological experiment would inspire the world to create a better and more sustainable future.
“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?”
Tia Carrere, Richard Dreyfuss, Alaina Huffman, Rob Corddry are also set to star in the film.
Brando died in 2004 from respiratory failure from pulmonary fibrosis with congestive heart failure at the age of 80.
He left behind a six decade legacy in film which started in 1944.
Waltzing With Brando is set to debut at the Torino Film Festival on November 30th.