Antonio Banderas as Pope Francis?

It could happen, according to RNS: 

Spanish heartthrob Antonio Banderas may be cast in the role of Pope Francis in the first feature film to be made on the life of the Argentine pontiff.

Italian director Daniele Luchetti plans to make the $12 million Spanish-language film, titled Call Me Francesco, with producer Pietro Valsecchi, who has made some of Italy’s highest-grossing movies.

Valsecchi’s Rome-based production house, Taodue Film, confirmed the news May 14, and a spokeswoman said the company was looking to shoot the film in various locations, including Argentina and Italy.

Banderas is one of the top Spanish-speaking actors being considered to play the lead role, she told Religion News Service.

The film is based on the best-selling book Francisco: El Papa de la gente (or Francis: The People’s Pope) by Evangelina Himitian, a journalist with the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion.

Casting is still being finalized but pre-production is well underway, the company spokeswoman said.

Shooting is expected to begin this summer. Taodue declined to speculate on whether the film would be completed and ready for release on Dec. 17, the Pope’s 78th birthday.

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But I think Banderas’s co-star from Evita, Jonathan Pryce, looks the part (at least for an older Bergoglio):