Billy Zane Marlon Brando Biopic

Billy Zane Marlon Brando Biopic

Film fans have been stunned by an actor's incredible transformation into Marlon Brando for a new biopic.

Many actors have undergone unrecognizable transformations for roles, with Colin Farrell being the most recent actor to do so for his role in the HBO series The Penguin.

But perhaps the most impressive transformation in recent years is poised to take the crown.

An actor has become Brando for a new film titled Waltzing with Brando, which focuses on the actor between 1966 and 1974, when he was working on The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris in Paris.

Waltzing with Brando will feature the actor in the role of Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 gangster film, for which he won the Best Actor Oscar, and film fans were stunned when a still was released online.

It wasn't a picture of Brando from The Godfather, but of actor Billy Zane playing Brando in The Godfather.

Zane's casting, whose credits include Dead Calm and Titanic, stunned Brando fans, who agree that the actor looks exactly like him in the picture.

"You could tell me that was a picture of Marlon Brando and I would believe it," responded one stunned social media user when the image was released online, with many others agreeing that they would have mistaken the picture for Brando when they first saw it.

"No way that's Billy Zane. I can't even recognize him," wrote another, concluding, "This might be the greatest casting ever..."

Waltzing with Brando, written and directed by Bill Fishman, is described as "the little-known but entirely true story of how Marlon Brando convinced architect Bernard 'Bernie' Judge that, together, they could create the world's first, ultimate eco-retreat on a small, uninhabited island in Tahiti."

The synopsis continues: "Brando believed this grand environmental experiment would inspire the world to a better, more sustainable future," the synopsis continues. "Thus, Bernie, the practical problem-solver, and Brando, the temperamental dreamer, embark on an incredible adventure and, along the way, become unlikely friends. But will the dream ever be realized?"

There is currently no release date for the film.

Brando, whose other films included A Streetcar Named Desire, Guys & Dolls and On the Waterfront, died in 2004 at the age of 80. 

Billy Zane Marlon Brando Biopic