Scorsese will direct film on Sinatra’s life

Scorsese will direct film on Sinatra’s life

LOS ANGELES — Martin Scorsese will tell Frank Sinatra’s life story on film.

The Academy Award-winning director of “The Departed” will direct “Sinatra,” the first feature film about Ol’ Blue Eyes’ life, Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures said Wednesday.

The film will be “an unconventional biopic,” said Mandalay Pictures President Cathy Shulman, who is co-producing the film with Mandalay Chairman Peter Guber.

“It’s not a cradle-to-the-grave traditional portrait of the consecutive events in a man’s life,” Shulman said. “Instead, it’s more of a collage and, in many ways, it will feel like an album itself. It’s a collection of various moments and impressions in his life, and together we hope they’ll tell the full story and present full themes.”

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson (“Field of Dreams”) has spent “at least a year buried in 30,000 pages of research” to write the screenplay, Schulman said.

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