Reclusive veteran actor Marlon Brando is in final negotiations to star as himself in Ridha Behi's "Brando and Brando," to be produced by British Oscar-winning producer Norma Heyman ("Dangerous Liaisons"). The $5.5 million-budgeted movie details the story of a young innocent with a fascination for the American dream -- embodied by the iconic Brando -- on a journey of hope to the United States. Behi describes his screenplay as "a path to explore the desperately unfair conflict between Western technological and materialistic power and those many human beings whose only weapons are their identity and their timeless values."

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