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Billy Zane spits Marlon Brando in ‘Waltzing with Brando’ first look: see photos

Billy Zane spits Marlon Brando in ‘Waltzing with Brando’ first look: see photos

Billy Zane is perfect as Marlon Brando in the first look at the upcoming film Waltzing with Brando.

Footage from the Bill Fishman-directed film features Zane — best known for his role in 1997’s “Titanic” — as a dead ringer for Brando in the era of his 1972 films “The Godfather” and “Last Tango in Paris.”

Brando won the Oscar for his role as Vito Corleone, the crime boss patriarch in “The Godfather,” but turned down the award.

Billy Zane spits Marlon Brando in ‘Waltzing with Brando’ first look: see photos

Marlon Brando in the 1972 movie “The Godfather” is gone, and Billy Zane playing Brando in the upcoming movie “Waltzing with Brando.”

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He also earned an Oscar nomination for “Last Tango in Paris,” in which he starred opposite Maria Schneider.

Marlon Brando on the set of “Last Tango in Paris”, left, and Billy Zane in the upcoming film “Waltzing with Brando”.

AP/Torino Film Festival

The synopsis for “Walsing with Brando,” which takes place between 1969 and 1974, notes that it is “the little-known but absolutely true story of how Marlon Brando convinced architect Bernard ‘Bernie’ Judge that together they could build the first perfect ecological retreat on one of Tahiti’s small, uninhabited islands.”

“Brando believed that this great ecological experiment would inspire the world to create a better and more sustainable future,” the synopsis continues. “So Bernie, the practical problem solver, and Brando, the moody dreamer, embark on an incredible adventure and along the way become unlikely friends. But will this dream ever come true?”

“Waltzing with Brando,” based on Judge’s 2011 book “Waltzing with Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti,” will have its world premiere as the closing film for the 2024 Turin Film Festival on Nov. 30.

The 42nd annual film festival will also include a major Brando retrospective to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Brando, who won — and accepted — an Academy Award for 1954’s “On the Waterfront,” died at age 80 in 2004.