In the film Waltzing with Brando, Marlon Brando’s architect gets an offer he should have refused: make him a home on an uninhabitable Tahitian island.

Actor Billy Zane disappears into the role, perfectly essaying Brando in a Godfather scene recreation. Then we see his more playful (some would say off-kilter) side as he explains to architect Bernard Judge (Jon Heder) that he wants to make a home on a small Tahitian island with no drinkable water, no source of food, no electricity and not enough money to solve any of those problems.

“I won an island nearby. It’s more beautiful than words can describe and cinematography can capture, and I want to move there,” Zane as Brando says in the trailer.

Of course, Judge takes the job, and the movie veers into physical comedy as he tries to make Brando’s dream come true without much help from the actor, who gives Judge a glass of water “made from my own urine” in one scene, and who recommends the island be powered by electric eels in another.

“To live out there with even a moderate amount of convenience would be a monumental undertaking,” Judge says about the island, which is devoid of even that.

Based on the memoir of the same name by the real Bernard Judge, Bill Fishman wrote and directed the film which explores Marlon Brando’s ambitious, and possibly misguided, attempt to create a home on the secluded Tahitian island of Tetiaroa during the early 1970s. The story takes place over the years Brando was filming The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris.

Waltzing with Brando was produced by Fishman, Zane and Dean Bloxom. The film will premiere this month at the Torino Film Festival and is expected to hit theaters sometime next year.