Billy Zane Photos as Marlon Brando Shock Fans: 'Unbelievable'

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Billy Zane plays Brando.

Fans are excited about new photos featuring the actor Billy Zane as Marlon Brando for a film, expressing his shock at the ‘unbelievable’ resemblance.

“Amazing. Absolutely beautiful. Oscar win?” a man wrote on X on a post sharing photos showing Zane as Brando’s “Godfather” character. “Amazing,” wrote another fan.

People Magazine called Zane Brando’s ‘spitting image’.

‘I see an Oscar from afar’ wrote one person on X. “I would have believed you if you had said this was Marlon Brando,” someone wrote on X on a post with a photo of Zane as Brando.

According to TODAYin which some photos have been shared, Zane Brando will star in an “upcoming biopic” called “Waltzing with Brando,” which “explores the period during which he prepared for some of his most iconic roles.”

“Unbelievable how similar,” wrote another fan. “My goodness. Reincarnation. Brando is laughing from heaven,” wrote another.

Billy Zane as Marlon Brando is what we call perfect casting.

“He looks great, but I have yet to hear him speak. Brando has been parodied so many times over the years. I hope he gets it done,” said another person wrote on X.

Daan wrote on Instagram in November 2024: “So grateful for the kind invitation to close the @torinofilmfestival on November 30 in honor of the 100th anniversary of #marlonBrando’s birth with our film #waltzingwithbrando, which captures the man’s passion for #civilrights #indigenous rights and his little-known commitment to the #environment and #sustainable #design and #architecture.”

He added: “This dramatic comedy isn’t your average biopic, as it focuses on a fruitful five-year period in Brando’s life, through the eyes of the young architect, played brilliantly by @hederjon, who he hired to realize his dream to achieve: building a #zerocarbon factory. retreat on his private island #tahitian in 1970!…And the epic films that Marlon sometimes even made reluctantly to pay for everything. ;)”

Billy Zane shared photos from the set on his Instagram page

In May, Daan shared a series of photos from the set on his Instagram page, which read: “The production team was so on point.”

According to People, the film will follow Brando’s life “in the 1970s, offering glimpses of the Oscar-winning legend in Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather.”

The film will premiere at the Turin Film Festival in November, People reports.

Fans argued that Billy Zane is underrated as an actor

this is a picture of billy zane playing marlon brando in a new biopic and he looks exactly like brando while still looking exactly like billy zane and it gives me a headache.

On social media, many fans claim that Zane never got his due as an actor.

“This is a photo of Billy Zane playing Marlon Brando in a new biopic and he looks just like Brando while still looking just like Billy Zane and it gives me a headache,” another person wrote: share a photo of Zane on a beach.

‘He is a very good actor’ another person wrote. “The Titanic movie probably hurt him because he was TOO GOOD as a villain, and a lot of people still hate him because they think he is that character.”

“This is almost scary” another person wrotesharing a photo of Zane as Brando.

Jessica McBride is a news, sports and entertainment reporter covering breaking news, political sports, entertainment and crime for Heavy. She is a former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Waukesha Freeman newspapers in Wisconsin and is a senior journalism instructor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. More about Jessica McBride