Frank Sinatra poses backstage at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles after the taping of Sinatra: 80 Years My Way in 1995. (Kevork Djansezian/Associated Press)

Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese has signed on to make "an unconventional biopic" about Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra.

Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures announced details of the forthcoming movie, simply titled Sinatra, in Los Angeles Wednesday.

"It's not a cradle-to-the-grave traditional portrait of the consecutive events in a man's life," said Mandalay president Cathy Shulman.

"Instead, it's more of a collage and in many ways it will feel like an album itself. It's a collection of various moments and impressions in his life and together we hope they'll tell the full story and present full themes."

Though no casting decisions have been made, nor a production start date settled, producers said screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson (who penned Field of Dreams) has spent about a year researching the famed American entertainer, who died in 1998.

Both Warner Music Group and the Sinatra estate are also involved in the project.

The celebrated Sinatra, famed for his smooth vocals, was an iconic persona in American culture for his singing talent, his personal style, his membership in the infamous Rat Pack clique of entertainers as well as for allegedly having ties to organized crime.

The best-selling recording artist and Grammy-winner who made classics out of songs like My Way, New York, New York, Strangers in the Night and I've Got You Under My Skin also appeared in dozens of films over his lifetime and won two Academy Awards.

Sinatra most recently scaled the musical charts in 2008 with Nothing but the Best, an album of re-mastered classics.

With files from The Associated Press