After his success with making the rockumentary about the Rolling Stones, “Shine a Light” legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese is said to direct a biopic about the life of Frank Sinatra

Scorsese plans to document Sinatra’s life and finally end speculation that the late star was part of the American mobster scene. Tina Sinatra, Frank’s daughter, produced a miniseries about her father in 1992 entitled Sinatra. She says about Scorsese directing the biopic, “Marty has always wanted to do this. I trust him implicitly.”

The above picture is a parody

Following from Chris Beaubien’s brilliant review of Standard Operating Procedure below, an interesting development has hit Oliver Stone’s new biopic on the current US president.

Despite movie executives best efforts, the script of Oliver Stone’s movie covering George W Bush’s time in office has leaked. The New York Post has reportedly obtained a copy of the script despite Stone’s determination to keep details of “W” under wraps with watermarked scripts and scripts being embargoed in order to maintain tight security.

Stars of the film are Ioan Gruffud, Thandie Newton and Josh Brolin. The movie reportedly pokes fun at GW Bush and creates dastardly caricatures of both Bush and members of his administration. Bill Clinton is also parodied in the movie and reportedly has a scene ion which he is referred to as a “lardass”.

The leaked script goes on to make fun of Bush’s relationship with his parents, his alleged incompetence, his Texan accent and, most controversially, his decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003.

“W” which started filming on May 12 in Louisiana, has a release date scheduled for October 2008.