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May 5, 2024 · As of May 2024, there is no set release date yet for Martin Scorsese's untitled Frank Sinatra biopic, which isn't that much of a surprise. Variety only confirmed the movie in April 2024,...
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May 14, 2022 · Some of them are simply half-baked or have hit creative stumbling blocks, but there are others where frustratingly the hurdles are purely administrative—that is just about the case with his planned Frank Sinatra biopic.
Apr 17, 2024 · Martin Scorsese is eyeing a Frank Sinatra biopic, Steven Spielberg is set to make a UFO movie, and more aging auteurs.
Apr 18, 2024 · Martin Scorsese put together a super cast for a planned biopic of the American crooner Frank Sinatra. According to Variety, Leonardo DiCaprio is taking on the role of the singer, and Jennifer...
- There Had Been A Ton of Previous Attempts at Sinatra Biopics
- The Title Was Simply Sinatra
- Al Pacino and Robert de Niro Were Rumored to Play Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin
- Scripts Were Written by Billy Ray and Phil Alden Robinson
- The Movie Would’Ve Explored Sinatra’s Involvement with The Mob
- Michael Ballhaus Was Going to Shoot The Movie
- Scorsese Came Up with An Experimental Approach For The Film
- The Story Would’Ve Been Told Through Sinatra’s Music
- The Project Was called Off Because The Sinatra Estate Wouldn’T Sign Off
Long before Martin Scorsese decided to try to mount a Frank Sinatra biopic, there were a bunch of previous attempts to bring the singer’s life to the screen. However, Scorsese’s attempt was going to be the first “official” Sinatra biopic, as he was the only filmmaker who wanted to portray the star’s life who actually involved the Sinatra estate in ...
Throughout the eight-year development of Scorsese’s cinematic chronicle of Frank Sinatra’s life, the project went under the title Sinatra, which aptly describes what it is. Scorsese doesn’t usually name his biopics after their subjects, tending to instead go for their nicknames like Raging Bull and The Wolf of Wall Street.
When Sinatra was in active development, it was rumored that Scorsese was eyeing Al Pacino for the title role and Robert De Niro for the supporting role of Dean Martin. He would eventually pair up the actors for The Irishmanon Netflix. The director also reportedly considered John Travolta for Sinatra and Tom Hanks for Martin, while later rumors sugg...
Separate scripts for Scorsese’s Sinatra biopic, neither of which were approved by the Sinatra estate, were written by Billy Ray and Phil Alden Robinson. Ray is the acclaimed screenwriter behind The Hunger Games, Captain Phillips, and Richard Jewell. Robinson, on the other hand, is most renowned for writing and directing Field of Dreams. He also did...
Frank Sinatra was reportedly infuriated by Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather, because he felt that the character of Johnny Fontane, a singer linked to the mafia, was based on him. He confronted Puzo in Chasen’s and yelled at him and threatened physical violence. Scorsese’s movie about Sinatra would’ve explored his involvement with the mob – as well ...
Scorsese tapped his go-to cinematographer Michael Ballhaus to shoot Sinatra when he first decided he was going to helm the project. Ballhaus is responsible for a bunch of Scorsese’s most iconic shots, primarily the Copacabana tracking shot from Goodfellas. RELATED: How Mean Streets Established Scorsese's Style However, after the movie had been in d...
Before the de-aging effects that made The Irishmanpossible were invented, Scorsese came up with an experimental approach to cover huge portions of Sinatra’s life in his biopic. He was going to cast different actors to play Sinatra at different stages of his life and then jump all over the timeline to cover as much ground as possible.
When Scorsese began developing the Sinatra movie, he wanted a screenwriter to cook up a script that would “go through the greatest hits of Sinatra’s life.” However, as he got midway through pre-production with this structure, he realized it didn’t work. That’s when he came up with the idea to take Sinatra’s life one step at a time with different ac...
Scorsese wanted to give audiences a warts-and-all portrait of Frank Sinatra that would look at the negative aspects of his life as well as the positives – as is the M.O. of Scorsese’s raw, honest style of filmmaking– but the Sinatra estate refused to sign off on it. The director spent eight years developing the Sinatraproject before officially scra...
Apr 18, 2024 · Martin Scorsese fans might have experienced a bit of deja vu after Variety exclusively reported that a Frank Sinatra biopic is one of two films the Oscar-winning director is planning to...
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Apr 22, 2024 · Martin Scorsese, Leo DiCaprio, Frank Sinatra. There’s a pleasing kind of inevitability about it isn’t there? The old Marty -Leo axis back together again, a New York icon – albeit one from New...
