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Who can play Frank Sinatra?
Posted by David Hepworth on 14 May 2009 - 8:49am.
Martin Scorsese, Universal Pictures and the Sinatra Estate have reached an agreement to make a movie about his life.
So go on then.
Who's going to wear the hat?
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If it's a 'Martin Scorsese Picture'...
then Leonardo DiCaprio is a shoe-in for the part.
My thought as well.
Leonardo...
..still looks baby-faced in all his films to me so might pass as the very young Sinatra at a stretch.
How about Christian Bale? He's got the temper for it.
Leonardo DiCaprio? Leonardo
Leonardo DiCaprio? Leonardo DiCrapio more like! If Scorcese cast him I'd have to personally hunt the great man down and give him a damn good telling off.
I can't see what the fuss is about with regards DiCaprio...
but he has replaced De Niro as Scorsese's muse.
If Scorsese likes him, then
If Scorsese likes him, then there must be something to him, but I just never find him convincing. The only Scorcese I've seen him in is The Departed which I didn't really enjoy, but maybe I ought to give him a second chance. Is the Aviator any cop?
The Departed is Scorsese by numbers
with a genuinely laughable climax.
The Aviator is better, and well worth a look but isn't vintage Marty. Neither film are what he will be remembered for.
Riding on a rep
Let's be honest. If Scorsese's first movie had been Casino, would anything he's done since be rated above Ridley Scott's filmography? Hell, or even Tony Scott's?
Just as Coppola has been riding on his reputation as the director of just three films, The Godfather I and II and Apocalypse Now, the most recent of which was made 30 years ago, Scorsese hasn't made anything worth writing home about since Goodfellas. Or has he? Er... hang on, let me think. Well, that one with Nicolas Cage was sort of okay (if we work around the rather unfortunate fact that Nicolas Cage was in it). And Casino itself, while very messy, certainly had its moments. Then there's... er....
Meanwhile, over the same period - the last 20 years - Steven Spielberg, despite some flops (The Terminal) and even some outright turkeys (AI), has directed Cape Fear, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Amistad, Minority Report and Munich, all of which, in their respective genres, are in a different league from anything Scorsese has put out.
But...well, he's Marty - behind-the-camera's answer to Jack Nicholson. Or perhaps (deep breath) Bob Dylan. What counts isn't the What, but the Who.
Agreed.
But I would put Woody Allen above Scorsese for riding on past glories.
I do wonder how Woody Allen actually gets funding for his films.
They're pretty low key affairs granted but still we are talking millions of dollars.
He's still much revered (and therefore bankable) in Yurp
It probably wasn't called Vicky, Cristina, Butte Idaho for a reason.
"...just three films,
The Godfather I and II and Apocalypse Now..."
I'd settle
And Jack
obviously :-)
Archie, let someone who otherwise agrees with you point
something out. Cape Fear was directed by Martin Scorsese himself not Spielberg.
I'm not usually such a smarty-pants but I think it's a bit rude to use Cape Fear as an example in this instance when it was actually made by the man you're using it against. I'm sure it was just a momentary mental lapse on your part.
It's been a long week
I was so busy previewing 17 times to get all the code for the italics right, that I wasn't paying attention to the text.
Ta for the correction.
I love many Scorsese movies...
but I haven't seen the last few he's made. I think I started to feel he was repeating himself when 'Casino' came out. I suppose I should watch them at some point...
OK, I'm late to this, but...
Scorsese's greatest post-GoodFellas film is the criminally underrated The Age Of Innocence. Woody Allen's been off the boil for a decade, no more - critics hail his 1970s films, but his output throughout the 80s and early 90s is damn near flawless. And you need to add The Conversation to the list of good Coppola films.
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No arguments there
But I was talking about reputations, not the quality of individual films. (The Conversation is actually my favourite Coppola jobby. The problem is that nobody saw it.)
And although The Age of Innocence is indeed a fine film made by Scorsese, it's not a "Scorsese film", if you catch my drift.
Even Gangs of New York had a magnificent film buried away in there somewhere. Unfortunately, not even his trusty Thelma could find it for the life of her.
Fair enough
Marty lost me at Kundun...
(Sigh)
"The Age of Innocence is indeed a fine film made by Scorsese, it's not a "Scorsese film" "
What do you want from him, if not a fine film.....?
John Leguizamo
Or maybe Mark Ruffalo or Michael Imperioli who played Christopher in The Sopranos
The real answer is no-one, of course.
Ben Stiller
with some prosthetics (and acting lessons)
I don't know
but if you hum it...
..BA-DOOM!
Robert Downey would not seem
an unwise choice, all factors considered.
Harry Connick Jr
? He can sing, he can act.
But I read somewhere that the Sinatra family does not like him for some reason or other.
That's quite a good shout actually...
or what about Chris Isaak? I just looked on his website and he's still a handsome chap, and he can sing.
Wesley Snipes
man gets my vote....
imagine the possibilites
and P Diddy as the next James Bond! Yes!
Ray Liotta
Has played him before in the not terrible (but not brilliant) HBO film about the Rat Pack. Don Cheadle played Sammy Davis and Joe Mantegna played Dino.
Your right,
it wasn't terrible nor was it brilliant, but the actors you mention were all great in those parts. As a Sinatra fan I hope they don't **** this one up!
Robert Downey Jr.
Who else is there?
Surely there's only one candidate
Ratboy!
Yes... give it to Ratboy!
I hoped no-one would mention him......
Looks wise, isn't Ray Winstone beginning to resemble post comeback Sinatra?
Clough to Sinatra isn't that far fetched in my mind....
Michael Sheen seems to be the go to guy at the moment....
I think he could pull it off as well.
Pete Dohery...
...and he could bring his own hat.
Ed Harris
Dunno about the singing, but he's certainly got the acting chops. A bit old for the younger bits mind...
Ed Harris
For many years, EH was the default American actor in UK TV dramas - I presume he lived here and was cheap.
Now his career has taken off a little more, I still can't help thinking "Oh, that's Ed Harris" whenever I see him. I struggle to see him as the character, rather than the actor (if that makes sense)
Kevin Spacey?
It seems decades since he's done anything really good, but at his best he can do charm, charisma and menace all at the same time. And he can sing.
He blew his chance when he
He blew his chance when he played Bobby Darren - you can't play two crooners in one career surely?
Kevin Spacey is one of the
Kevin Spacey is one of the most transformable (maybe that's sannish, not english, but you get it) actor I know. I'm sure he would do great as Sinatra. His face is both young and old.
There Must
be a Telly program in this somewhere.Search for a Sinatra?Sinatra Factor?Britain's Got Sinatra?
On the panel,Cullum,Ray Quinn,Mickey Bubble and the Lovely
Katherine Jenkins.I wouldn't watch it though,i don't like
Swing music.
How do you solve a problem like Frank?
Good idea. That young la from the 'pool who finished second to our Leona - gorra have a chance. A second chance like. How many of us get that? Just a second chance to turn our lives around? This time I'm doing it for Nanna and 'er bad leg. She's 'ad it for a while to be honest like
'kinnell Sheev -
do you not watch Dancing on Ice? Ray Q's had his second chance, grabbed it with both hands and triple salko'd the arse outta it. Winner! His Nan walks again!
that's great news
I've been out of the country
It was going to be Tom Hanks
but this was way back in the late 90s when the project was first mooted. The HBO version was pretty good, and yeah Liotta, Mantegna and Cheadle were all aces.
Scorsese's George Harisson movie is next, and it's already finished according to IMDB.
Ideally…
… someone unknown, so we don't have view 'Frank' through the filter of someone who carries their own baggage with them. If that isn't mixing my metaphors too heinously.
i'd have thought...
... hugh jackman might toss his hat in the ring
Crikey !
Oh no , Sorry
I mis-read that.
I'm,like, serious?
I reckon having seen him in "In Bruges" - Colin Farrell would make a pretty decent fist of it.
Sorry, but the only candidate in the running is.........
Vegas
Johnny Vegas.
Supporting cast
Sammy Davis Jr: Bruce Forsyth
Dean Martin : Martin Clunes
Mia Farrow : LaRoux
Ava Gardner:
Amy Winehouse
Horse's head: Shergar
Rayleigh Otter
No question. He was fantastic in the Rat Pack film
The rumour mill says...
...Johnny Depp is a strong possibility. Wouldn't be a bad call.
Apparently they'll be using Sinatra's own recordings, so no Jamie Foxx / Kevin Spacey / Joaquin Phoenix stuff required.
Cate Blanchett
The one and only choice. She was superb as His Bobness and she'd be brilliant as The Voice.
Clooney?