05.13.09 MARTY SCORSESE DIRECTING SINATRA BIOPIC
A fairly-certain-sounding Nikki Finke is reporting exclusively [now confirmed by Variety] that Universal has acquired the rights to a biopic about Frank Sinatra, as well as permission from the Sinatra family, with Martin Scorsese attached to direct.
“This has been a passion project for [producer] Peter Guber for a long time, and first he got together with the Sinatra Estate and then with Scorsese who’s also a huge Sinatra fan,” an insider tells me. Tina [Frank's youngest daughter] herself has told journalists in the past that she would “trust Scorsese implicitly” to “present the truth” about her father because he’s also an Italian-American.
And the best part about it is that it probably torpedoes any shot Brett Ratner had at making the Rat Pack movie he had planned with Chris Tucker (seriously though, that was on the table at one point). Wow, a movie about Sinatra from the guy who did Goodfellas? Can you imagine? I think I just wopgasmed. Can’t stop… gesturing at crotch…
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MARTY SCORSESE DIRECTING SINATRA BIOPIC
Old Blue Eyes was called inimitable for a reason. Good luck finding a lead I can buy as Franky.
Ol’ Blue Eyes, directed by
Ol’ Blue BallsOnly woulda worked if Marty hadn’t made The Departed.
To prepare for this movie, I’m gonna watch Billy Batts get beat to death with “That’s Life” playing over Donovan.
Can’t wait to see this movie’s horn section.
Brett Ratner’s Sinatra sang “Come Fly With Me” while driving around in an unmarked van.
*ring*
Hello.
Hey Marty, this is Joe Piscopo and….
*click*
Sure, it’s pretty exciting knowing Scorsese’s handling the film, but I’m sure that the best is yet to come!
Hi, I’m new. Please don’t hurt me.
Another term for wopgasm: showing your HEY-O! face.
Brett Ratner’s Sammy Davis Jr. would be a breakdancer
Hopefully one of the liberties taken with the story will be a scene where the Rat Pack beats up a guy who “looks” like Joe Pesci.
Brett Ratner’s Sammy Davis Jr. would be a belt breaker.
Brett Ratner’s Dean Martin would be played by Jackie Chan, only so he could say “Ain’t that a kick in the head?” after knocking someone out in an inexplicable fight scene.
Here’s another case for me where the names involved are supposed to lend some type of metaphysical credence to the project, yet I do not detect it nor care.
Brett Ratner’s Rat Pack’s Ocean’s Eleven pull a heist at a Chuck E. Cheese
*tosses keys to ice cream truck to AndDenn*
Here, go pick up His dry cleaning and make sure to hang up the Grand Wizard robes.
And remember, it only hurts the first time.
Brett Ratner’s Sammy Davis Jr. would constantly point out how much taller he is than everyone else.
Fek–I’m not gonna ask why the ice cream truck smells like barn animals and desperation.
You Dagos need to stop living in the pasta.
The desperation is easy enough to explain, the farm animals? Well, The Mighty Feklahr is sure that erswi must have borrowed the truck.
Ciao, non-consentual bird sexers!
Oh, Al, I’ll check FB this eve and get back later.
Casting call by Martin Scorcese:
“looking for female extras to suck my sinatra”
The Scorsese tag is spelled wrong. Typ(guid)o!
Ratner can make the Frank Sinatra, Jr. movie. It will be the mediocralypse.
For fuck sakes, are the many annoying incarnations of SmokeEm still stinking up the joint?
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