QUICK TAKES - May 14, 2009

He’s already been the subject of a 1992 CBS miniseries and a 1998 HBO movie, but now Universal Pictures says it plans to make a feature film about legendary singer Frank Sinatra, who died 11 years ago today.

And lined up to helm the biopic of the country’s most famous Italian American singer is the country’s most heralded Italian American director: Martin Scorsese. The “Sinatra” script is being written by Phil Alden Robinson (“Field of Dreams,” “Sneakers”).

Among the executive producers will be the entertainer’s youngest daughter, Tina Sinatra, who also was an executive producer of the 1992 miniseries, also called “Sinatra,” which starred Philip Casnoff as her father.

-- Lee Margulies