Martin Scorsese's FRANK SINATRA Movie - Unmade Biopics 

You totally miss Dean Martins real torment and crushing tragic event. When he lost his son Deano he fell into an inconsolable depression from which he would never fully recover.

I know it’s dead, but I’ve always held out hope one day we’ll get Scorsese’s Sinatra film

I spent much of my teenage years and early adulthood keeping up on the news of this biopic, every rumor, every interview or commentary, barely able to wait for it to come out. I eventually understood that it would never come to be, but didn't understand why. Thank you so, so much for this video essay, it finally shed light on the history of such a complex project!

When an artists' life so hectic even Martin himself finds it tricky. He truly did, have it his way. RIP Mr Sinatra.

If the movie had existed I would have seen Micheal Keaton in old Sinatra

Jim Carrey as Jerry Lewis is the best casting I've ever heard.

Dean's life is so deep and complex etc. I don't know how anyone could pull it off to do it justice. I am sure Scorsese feels the same way! Dean was not an easy person to figure out. He didn't cry to the press about his life life like Frank did, he was more private. However the book they are referencing is very good but Dean had nothing to do with it as he had checked out after his son died. Very sad ending for Dean but he was and is the King of Cool and always will be. RIP Dean!

This video aged like fine wine

This video was made so well, I came across it by accident and didn't plan to watch the entire thing-but watched the entire thing because it was so interesting. Good Job!

The way he describes the sinatra film storytelling timeline it sounds like what he did with the Irishman

Well, personally I think priorities are all screwed up. There should be a documentary on Gershwin. And I think the kids need to learn what Gershwin was about. And I think they would want to once they got into hearing his addictive scores in styles. I think we might have a whole new bunch of kids wanting to learn to compose and play piano. Well, that's my two cents on the subject.

A SERIOUS biopic about Sinatra will probably not be able to be made, as long as his relatives are still alive.

Hugh Grant as Peter Lawford sounds interesting. It’s so sad that it is never going to get made.

This sounds very much like what happened with Bohemian Rhapsody. Sacha Baron Cohen wanted to make a film about something, but as Queen were the producers they insisted on a watered down film for a mass audience of people who just wanted to bop their heads to the songs. This is why biopics shouldn't be produced by their subjects or people with a financial interest in them.

Pleasw update this video! This one is so good! It will be even better now with a happier ending

You can't make films about these people. They're unique, and so much more impressive than anyone who could be cast to play them.

DiCaprio would be great as Sinatra, especially because of us knowing how good he is at portraying real-life people. He also 'kind of' resembled Sinatra in The Wolf of Wall Street.

It would be cool to have a Dean Martin movie as well as one on Sinatra

Just masterful work here, the interviews, particularly the Ellison piece, to me after watching this several times, in some ways I've seen the rough cut of the film! And also seen clearly why the film can only be a film of the mind. There is no movie here, far too complex. For either Dino or Frank. And the book on Dino is really a masterpiece.

Who here wants Scorcese to pick up the project again on Netflix?

Day Lewis and Hanks as the Gershwin brothers? How did this not happen?

The question is: Will we have a Frank Sinatra biopic under NETFLIX? Hopefully we will we have.

Your video essays are fascinating. Keep them coming; always look forward to them.

Alex Beck's narration always reminded me of the documentaries of the old James Bond making of videos in their DVDs. it's uncannily similar tone. Keep him, he's a treasure.

This is the first video by this channel I've seen, and I have got to say I am seriously impressed. This is so well done, perfectly narrated, deeply researched and highly entertaining and educational. Great great job.

Love it. Keep it coming. Love this channel

Such a great video. Seriously I love the way you cut this together.

Don't know whether anyone here has seen it, but the French biopic "Gainsbourg" (2011) tackles a similar icon with considerable style. It sidesteps the music problem mentioned here (i.e. do you re-record famous songs or have the actor mime to the original recordings) in a highly creative manner by not actually going there: you *hear* the original recordings on the soundtrack, behind other action, but you don't see an actor pretending to sing them. Two actors play the man himself: a child for the very early years, and an adult actor with an uncanny resemblance to the man to portray him throughout his adult years. It takes a very surreal, almost Gilliam-esque, approach to the material, depicting Gainsbourg in dialog with a literal embodiment of his "personal demons" - externalised internal monologue, if you will. It's well worth a watch. I'm not a major Serge Gainsbourg fan - I like the Melody Nelson album, but that and Je t'aime were all I really knew of his work - but I watched the film on a friend's recommendation and unexpectedly enjoyed the heck out of it. Anyway, it seems to solve many of the same problems mentioned here with trying to make a biopic that covers the broad sweep of an iconic performer's life. I'm sure that at least some of its creative solutions would also work for a Sinatra biopic :)

This is so well done! Thank you!!

This was not only interesting but well edited. Keep up the good work!

That was great ! Thank you.

I own the "All or Nothing At All" Sinatra documentary ...it provides a thorough bio of SInatra at over 3 hrs. For those who don't know of it, check it out

@supervoid... the only word i can say.. thanks!! our more closed friends always talk about "the movie never make".. please continue.. amazing job.. and more important .. with the heart;)

Very good video. Super interesting. Big thumb up. Thank you for your time and work.

As I always say, what do you call a hundred Hollywood and Nashville producers at the bottom of a lake? A good, if hardly adequate start. It is obscene that these three films were kept from us.

This would be the greatest movie of all time...Imagine you have the Ed Sullivan show open up the film, we see Leonardo DiCaprio play Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, we get appearances of Marilyn Monroe, the rest of the Ray pack... There’s mafia scenes involved. Lots of heavy smoking and drinking involved.. Tons of celebrity appearances. It would be the perfect film.

This was a fascinating watch! Extremely entertaining, especially Harlan Ellison's story!

If it had been made, I could so imagine Scorsese including the following, which actually happened in real life: Sinatra had got Peter Lawford to come to his estate and stay over, and to bring President John F Kennedy. Lawford was married to JFK's sister. Sinatra was so excited by the visit that he spent loads on getting everything right, even down to having a Helipad built, just so JFK could fly in, un-noticed. Then as the big day approached, Lawford phoned Sinatra to say that The President wouldn't be coming, because his people had decided Sinatra was too unsuitable to be associated with, due to his Mafia connections. Sinatra's response after the call, was to take a sledgehammer to the Helipad, smashing it to pieces in ferocious anger.

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Great video!

I think the longer this dragged on, and the more the family wanted a ‘friendly’ version of the story... Scorsese probably said this has become a made for TV biopic

Please continue making these pieces. They are so entertaining!

GREAT content, bravo

Great video. Hopefully this film will eventually be made.

Antonio' Sabato jr. Would have been the ideal actor to play Sinatra. Identical smile, and look, a huge opportunity for Antonio to have the biggest comeback of all times as an actor

Frank Sinatra was an amazing entertainer, devout father, loyal friend, humanitarian, passionate civil rights advocate, and one HELLUVA gentlemen when it came to the women he cared for. That's all respectable, but then again, he DID hang around with the Mafia. I know he was raised around them and that they ran all the places he performed at, so it was near impossible to avoid them, bu the fact that he did favours for, and ADMIRED a bunch of thieves, killers, extortionists and human traffickers does say quite a lot about him. I think the film just needed to explore his childhood and how he was raised, showing how the people who brought him up helped influence his point of view on the world, and how all this stuff the mob did was just sorta normal to him. Martin Scorsese is a MASTER at exploring the morality of criminals and how they live with their guilt, so he wouldve been able to pull of Sinatra in a way that would've been intriguing, compelling, and endearing, doing a great character study that explored the good, bad and evil of Frank. Even then, showing all the bad things that Sinatra got up to would certainly cause controversy and make a lot of people unsure of what to think of him, but when you have a life that was as interesting as Sinatra's, that NEEDS to be part of it, a Sinatra biopic should make people lose respect for Frank in many ways, but find more for him in many others.

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This looks like it could've been fantastic with the director and the cast.

Not a big Sinatra fan, but do admire the tonal quality of his voice. My favorite song by him: "What Is This Thing Called Love."

I’ve been wanting to see the Sinatra film for so long 😭 I’ve been in a lot of pain today - but watching this for the first time I didn’t think about it once. Thanks so much 🙏

Goddamn I hope this happens one day.

i would love a sinatra film dude

Your work is well researched and presented. You need far more exposure. I normally never like but in your case I must.

A quest! Would like to see a biopic on George Gershwin also!

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Great video

Cast: Tom Cruise as Frank Sinatra Eddie Reymayne as Dean Martin Morgan Freeman as Sammy Davis Jr Margot Robbie as Ava Gardner Brendan Gleeson as Jerry Lewis Director: Doug Liman Distributed by Universal Pictures/Columbia Pictures A Universal Picture or A Universal Release!

I am impressed by Ellison’s ability to tell a story and articulate the components.

Ya'll need to do the LONG DEVELOPMENT HELL of Janis Joplin Biopic

It pisses me off that he axed that project. My favorite filmmaker and my favorite performer, that would have a movie for the ages. It’s a shame though.

I wouldn't have trusted Ellison to tell me if it was raining outside, but the story is fun.

Too bad he won't consider finding a talented look-a-like newbie who can act.

Dam Hanks can't play every thing he would have been terrible as dean Martin

From Gershwin to Dino to The Chairman...

Dennis hopper had a fairly good go as an older sinatra in "the night we called it a day"a 2003 Australian film about the catastrophic Australia tour of 1974.not a classic by any means,but worth a watch.

Clooney, not Hanks, for Dino role.

The FS project is The One That Got Away from Martin. As to could have played him, Harry Connick Jnr could have done a decent attempt when he was younger, but the older version of FS would have proved problematic. No current actor of note has FS's physical characteristics. Even LDC would find that role a tough fit. The only way Martin could have achieved that feat is to cast a completely unknown actor.

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Great video, even greater now that the movie is finally happening

I have no idea why I clicked on this video, but I'm sure glad I did. This is one of the most intriguing video I've seen in a long time, not even sure why, but I was sad that it was so soon over. Heh

My conspiracy theory is this: they've already been shooting footage for this Scorsese/DiCaprio Sinatra movie. And as Leo ages, they shoot scenes based on Sinatra's age. Think Linklater's movie Boyhood, or the Sunset trilogy. Scorsese is not unfamiliar with depicting a characters lifespan throughout decades of its life, as seen in The Aviator, The Departed and The Irishman. So in, like, 15 years, we get to see this gigantic masterpiece of a film about the life of Frank Sinatra, and it will win all the awards in the world. The craftsmanship of director and actor and all involved will be recognized and Martin Scorsese will be hailed as the master filmmaker that he is for decades to come. As an old peaceful man than; Scorsese will die, and his last words will be: "Fuck Marvel."

Wow. this is such an amazing video. Than you! Wanna see one about Batman canceled movies :)

Di Caprio as Sinatra Tom Hardy as Dean Martin Kelvin Hart as Sammy Davis Jr Margot Robbie as Ava Gardner Bill Hader as Jerry Lewis

This is gonna sound egotistical and crazy..... But I swear on my life I could play Frank Sinatra and sing like him, hate me if you want

Alex Beck is my favourite Supervoid narrator. He brings a lecturer / directors commentary vibe .

how do you even research this thing?! let alone produce 40+ minutes of it! Bravo! :)

An interesting story. Thank you. Personally, for many reasons, I liked Frank Sinatra & much admire him on his loyalty quality. But loved Dean Martin for knowing himself, being who he was & his honesty, sincerity to himself and others. They’re great men.. in their own way. Will always be remembered.

Just brilliant.....thankyou so much!! Now I'm away to read the Telese piece!!

I remember reading Talese’s stunning article. It was brilliant and insightful. Ol’ Blue Eyes would’ve done better giving the damn interview. Great to see this video. Sinatra was larger than life. Who’s of comparable stature these days? Stars are smaller now.

Kubrick's Napoleon and Aryan Papers.... Tarantino's Casino Royale

I wanna see y'all's take on the cancelled Batman movies, the cancelled 80s American Godzilla movie, George Miller's cancelled Justice League Mortal movie, and the original Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic.

As big as Sinatra was, he was a part of something bigger ‘the songbook’ should be the name of an episodic series of which would include all of the contributors over several generations. That way the characters’ stories could be told thoroughly, characters should recur over several episodes,and overlap in the form of duets,and important moments in American history. A series like that could not fail, regardless of ratings, because all the right people would support it. with all due respect, dubbing a voice over an actors voice is a bad idea.

I was very sad that the biopic of Leonard Bernstein with Jake Gyllenhaal fell through.

Very interesting, I thought Martin was handled quite well in Rat Pack, at least at an introductory level if you did not know a whole lot about him. It would have been very interesting to see Scorsese do this of course.

Any chance of doing a video on the many original scripts written by writers as diverse as John Landis and Anthony Burgess for The Spy Who Loved Me, before they went with Christopher Woods'?

Too bad the Sinatra movie didn’t get made. He was bi-polar and the warts must show. His family wanted it strictly about his career. I can only imagine how good this film would’ve been especially using Frank’s voice in the hands of Scorsese..

Ronan Farrow should play Frank Sinatra.

So upset that this bio on FS is not going to happen. I was looking forward to it.

Nice piece. I wish Hollywood would make itself useful, and do an accurate remake of The Grapes of Wrath. I believe it’s something Americans need to rediscover. On Sinatra, sometimes it’s better to not know all facets of your heroes.

I love this narrator!

7:52 Jeremy Northam did a decent job playing Dino in 'Martin and Lewis', with Sean Hayes as Jerry Lewis, which focused on their partnership.

I would of really liked seeing this movie. Another what if this were made movie to be losing sleep over lol.

I dunno about those other projects, but a docudrama/biopic of H.H. Holmes (a.k.a. Walter Mudget) sounds like one of the scariest movies ever! =)

Tosches’ Dean Martin book is a great read. Highly recommended!

Ian somerhalder he can pull off playing Frank Sinatra and portray him from young to old

That got me excited until I saw never made ....!!

I think creating a Sinatra movie is just one of those damn near impossible things in life. You have to have an actor that's already established as genuinely suave, cool and has little hints of Sinatra mannerisms; rendering it unlikely.

Would be cool to see.

HBO Ratpack film was not bad...

The studio guy didn't think there was enough modern interest in Gershwin . . . and he was EXACTLY RIGHT!!