Billy Zane Looks Like Marlon Brando in First Look at New Film: Photos

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

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

Brando famously won the Oscar for playing Vito Corleone, the crime boss patriarch from “The Godfather,” but declined the award.

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

The synopsis of “Waltzing with Brando,” set between 1969 and 1974, notes that this is “the little-known but absolutely true story of how Marlon Brando convinced architect Bernard “Bernie” Judge that together they could create the first ecological perfect getaway 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 temperamental dreamer, embark on an incredible adventure and become unlikely friends along the way. 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 on November 30 as the closing film for the 2024 Torino Film Festival.

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

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