Quite frankly I’m stunned that a full motion picture biopic on the life of Frank Sinatra hasn’t been made up to this point. The man’s life is so damn interesting… so damn influential… so damn controversial… so damn scandalous… and so damn COOL it’s hard to image no one has stepped up to produce it yet. Until now.
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to the life story of Frank Sinatra and is moving forward to make the movie. And they picked the absolute perfect person in the world to direct it. Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese. How damn perfect is that???
The folks over at Dark Horizons give us this:
Oscar nominated screenwriter (Field of Dreams) Phil Alden Robinson is writing the screenplay for Sinatra based on the life of the iconic entertainer. Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures have been developing the project, after securing the Frank Sinatra life rights and music rights from Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE) – a joint venture of the Sinatra Estate and Warner Music Group.
This is fantastic news. So good, that the only thing I’m worried about at this point is how the hell you do the story of Frank Sinatra in just 1 movie? There was so much to the man… so many stories… so many events… so many milestones. I feel like you have to go Lord of the Rings on it and just make it a Sinatra trilogy: Part 1 – The Fellowship of the Rat Pack. Part 2 – The Two Vegas’. Part 3 – The Return of the Chairman
No word yet on when we can expect to see this, but I’ll be counting down the days once it’s announced. I’ll tell you right now it’ll be Oscar bait.
