Well, it’s about time…

May 13th, 2009 at 07:59pm Will Pfeifer

This one’s been buzzed about for years (decades?), but according to Nikki Finke’s blog, Martin Scorsese, the greatest Italian American director of all time, has signed a deal to make a biopic of Frank Sinatra, the greatest Italian American performer of all time. Here’s what Finke says:

I’ve just learned that Universal has acquired this project based on the life of Frank Sinatra from Mandalay Pictures. Phil Alden Robinson is writing the screenplay, and Marty Scorsese will direct as well as produce through his Sikelia Productions. The Sinatra family gave its permission, which is not easy to get, and youngest daughter Tina Sinatra will be an executive producer along with Robinson and Garry LeMel, the former president of Warner Bros music division and himself a musician.

I hope that “permission” from the Sinatra family doesn’t mean we’ll get a sanitized portrait of the Chairman. If any performer’s life and legend gains strength from the darker parts of his history, it’s Frank’s.

No word on casting, but you can bet another Italian American name will be at least mentioned: D-I-C-A-P-R-I-O.

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