Al Pacino Is Dali

Varity is reporting that actor Al Pacino will star as surrealist artist Salvador Dali in an upcoming biopic.

Dali & I: The Surreal Story from Room 9 Entertainment will begin filming in New York and Spain in June with director Andrew Niccol at the helm.

The film will be based on the novel of the same name by Stan Lauryssen. It will primarily cover the later days of Dali's work focusing mostly on the artist's surreal direction in his work.

No word yet on who else has been cast in the film.