Billy Zane is the spitting image of 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 an indispensable replacement for Brando in the era of his films “The Godfather” and “The Last Tango in Paris.” Year 1972.

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

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

The synopsis for “Waltzing with Brando,” which takes place between 1969 and 1974, states that it is “the little-known but absolutely true story of how Marlon Brando convinced architect Bernard 'Bernie' Judge that she… “Together we could build the first ecologically perfect retreat on one of Tahiti’s tiny, uninhabited islands.”

“Brando believed that this grand ecological experiment would inspire the world to create a better and more sustainable future,” the summary continues. “So Bernie, the practical problem solver, and Brando, the spirited 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 of the 2024 Turin Film Festival.

The 42nd annual film festival will also feature a major retrospective on Brando to mark his 100th birthday.

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