“Sinatra’s life was one riddled with sleaze and vice.”

Frank Sinatra Gets Whacked

Martin Scorsese’s gritty biopic of Frank Sinatra has been shelved. Was it the singer’s family, or Gen Z’s lack of interest, that killed it off?

By Alexander Larman

Cineasts everywhere will be disappointed by the latest news from Martin Scorsese, surely the world’s greatest living director. Not only has he announced that his sure-to-be-controversial film The Life of Jesus has been postponed, but the more commercial project that he had lined up to shoot back-to-back, his long-awaited biopic of the singer and actor Frank Sinatra, may have also been put out to pasture.

Thankfully, neither picture has been delayed because of ill health on the part of Scorsese, who, at the age of 81, remains a vital figure in cinema. The Life of Jesus is said to be in active development, and Scorsese is seeking independent financing for the film, which is rumored to star his Silence collaborator Andrew Garfield in the lead role.