Bill Fishman directs from a screenplay he adapted from the book Waltzing with Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti by the late Bernard Judge. In the book, Judge recounts his time building a sustainable village on an unpopulated group of islands in the South Pacific for Brando.

Actor Billy Zane channeled his inner mobster as the late film icon Marlon Brando when he starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster film “The Godfather."