With all the biopics being released in Hollywood, one that has yet to be touched is a film about one of this generation’s greatest actors, Marlon Brando. That is about to change as Billy Zane is set to play Marlon Brando in the upcoming film Waltzing with Brando.
The film is based on the book by architect Bernard Judge, who tried to turn a Tahitian atoll into an eco-paradise at Brando’s request. Brando bought the atoll of Tetiaroa with the goal of preserving it as a pre-Industrial paradise. Brando wanted a place to escape his woes, but he also wanted to preserve the reef and make it habitable.
The story of how that didn’t happen is in Judge’s book. The film will show Brando and Judge’s efforts from 1969 to 1974 when legal trouble and family tragedy finally tore Brando away from the project. Tapeheads’ Bill Fishman is set to write and direct.
