In news that is sure to have fans salivating, Martin Scorsese revealed to the Indian daily newspaper The Hindu that Al Pacino is his choice to play Frank Sinatra in the big screen biopic he is working on, with long-time collaborator Robert De Niro taking on the role of Dean Martin.
Back in March, Scorsese told ShortList that he wanted Sinatra to be portrayed by different actors at various points in his life.
“And we’re still working on the Sinatra script. It’s very hard because here is a man who changed the entire image of the Italian-American. And that’s just one thing. Along with his political work, civil rights, the Mob...”
“I was hoping it would be a combination of [GoodFellas and The Aviator]. Yeah, because in structure I’d like it to be more like GoodFellas. But like The Aviator, it only deals with certain times in his life. We can’t go through the greatest hits of Sinatra’s life. We tried this already. Just can’t do it. So the other way to go is to have three or four different Sinatras. Younger. Older. Middle-aged. Very old. You cut back and forth in time – and you do it through the music. See what I’m saying? So that’s what we’re trying for. It’s very tricky.”
Scorsese and De Niro have worked together on eight occasions, but not since 1995’s ‘Casino’. Over the last couple of years rumours of a new collaboration have circled – in particular ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’ and more recently, a sequel to ‘Taxi Driver’, but as of yet nothing has been confirmed. This would, however, mark the first collaboration between Pacino and Scorsese. De Niro and Pacino have appeared together in three films, the most recent being 2008’s ‘Righteous Kill’.
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