COLLIDER: Congrats on the movie.
BILL FISHMAN: Yeah, it has been.
It’s probably at least eight years.
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It came out pretty good when you got Billy Zane, who looks literally identical [to Brando].
You mentioned it took a long time to get to this on the big screen.
Make it light, enjoyable, and have some functional message about about Marlon Brando.
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About the environment, about what was going on in Tahiti.
It was almost as big a task as building the sanctuary.
I imagine with COVID, the great obstacle everyone went through.
Even the most accurate biopics take some creative liberties.
If you were to guess, how accurate would you say the movie is to the actual events?
FISHMAN: Well, I would say that this is very accurate.
Movie star Marlon Brando recruits a Los Angeles architect to build the world’s first ecologically perfect retreat on a small, uninhabited island in Tahiti.
In other words, I resisted the temptation to create drama where there wasn’t.
So it’s all there.
It’s all true.
I mean, offhand, I can’t think of any scene that was fictitious.
The one scene where I’m like, I cant picture that, is the eel scene.
I want to talk to you about generating power with electric eels.
And showed him the eels!
And he said, I don’t know if you might really do this.
And Brando said, Its always no with you!
All of the little details, everything’s pretty much accurate.
Now I’m even more excited to see it.
Even though it seems like with someone like Marlon Brando, it’s like, Okay, I peaked.
FISHMAN: There are.
I’m talking right now about doing a movie about Richard Nixon and Hunter S. Thompson.
So, we’ll see.
That might be the next.
Waltzing with Brandois currently awaiting an official release date.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
