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Movie fans are blown away by an actor’s transformation into Marlon Brando for a new biopic.

Many actors have undergone unrecognizable transformations for roles, with Colin Farrell being the most recent to do so for his role in the critically acclaimed HBO series. The penguin.

But there’s a new person poised to take the crown as perhaps the most impressive transformation in recent years.

One star has become Brando for a new film titled Waltzing with Brandowhich focuses on the actor between the ages of 16 and 1974, when he starred in The godfather And Last Tango in Paris.

Waltzing with Brando will portray the actor as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 gangster film, for which he won Best Actor at the Oscars, and film fans were surprised when a still from it was released online.

But can you guess who it is?

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This is not a photo of Brando The godfatherbut actor Billy Zane plays Brando The godfather.

The casting of Zane, whose credits include Dead quiet And Titanichas baffled Brando fans, who agree that the actor looks exactly like him in the photo.

“You could have said this was a photo of Marlon Brando and I would have believed it,” replied one stunned social media user when the photo appeared online, while many others agreed they believed the photo was Brando at the time they saw the photo for the first time. It.

One person wrote: “This is definitely not Billy Zane. I can’t recognize him,” while another concludes, “This might be the best casting of all time…”

Waltzing with BrandoWritten and directed by Bill Fishman, it is described as “the little-known but absolutely true story of how Marlon Brando convinced architect Bernard ‘Bernie’ Judge that together they could build the first ecologically perfect refuge on one of the small, uninhabited islands” .

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The synopsis continues: “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 become reality?”

There is currently no release date for the film.

Brando, whose other films were as well A tram called Desire, Boys & dolls And On the waterfrontdied in 2004, aged 80.

Last month, horror fans were enticed to watch new movies Smile 2 after the “genius” casting of the son of a famous Hollywood actor.

Just like Smilewhich starred the daughter of movie star Kevin Bacon, the sequel also features the offspring of someone quite recognizable – whose face was plastered across creepy posters for the film.