Martin Scorsese in a recent interview on his Frank Sinatra project:

We’re still working on the Sinatra script. It’s very hard because here is a man who changed the entire image of the Italian-American. And that’s just one thing. Along with his political work, civil rights, the Mob [...] I’d like it to be more like GoodFellas. But like The Aviator, it only deals with certain times in his life. We can’t go through the greatest hits of Sinatra’s life. We tried this already. Just can’t do it. So the other way to go is to have three or four different Sinatras. Younger. Older. Middle-aged. Very old. You cut back and forth in time – and you do it through the music. See what I’m saying? So that’s what we’re trying for. It’s very tricky.

Hmm… an unsanitized Sinatra may not go over well in the Italian American community; as reported by the NY Post, the Sinatra clan ain’t too happy with the direction Scorsese wants to take the film. Specifically, when it was announced last year that the Academy Award-winning director had signed on to direct the life story of Ol’ Blue Eyes, it was stated that Scorsese wanted the film to be “hard-hitting and showcase the violent, sexually charged, hard-drinking Frank.” But Sinatra’s daughter, Tina Sinatra, speaking for the family, would prefer to show “the softer side” of her father, and let “the focus be on the music.”