The Godfather star had spent his final six months working on the project, titled 'Brando and Brando ', when he died in July 2004.

Filmmaker Ridha Behi closed the project, which is about a Tunisian boy who travels to the US to meet his hero Brando and chase the American dream.

Behi has now overhauled and resurrected the film, which will now be called Citizen Brando, and will be part fiction and part documentary about the director's experiences with the star.

"What I was highlighting in the film, the Arab-USA tensions, have even greater resonance, two years later," BBC quoted Behi as saying.

The fictional side of the film will star Christopher Walken. Shooting has already begun at the Cannes Film Festival and will continue in the UK, Tunisia and the US over the next few weeks. (ANI)