Biopic Dali directed by Simon West is ready to sign on Antonio Banderas to play Salvador Dali. Banderas is talking final negotiations, which indicate a done deal in Variety

Variety reports that West will blend music with CGI sequences in an effort to capture the inventiveness and color of the painter. A similar technique was used in the 2002 movie biopic Frida about surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kalho.

Dali will explore how Dali conquered America and the world with sex, sin and surrealism only to succumb later to worldwide scandal and misfortune.

Interestingly two other Dali biopics are in the development: Al Pacino is attached to play the artist in Dali & I: The Surreal Story; and Twilight’s Robert Pattinson stars as Dali in the upcoming Little Ashes, which chronicles the young life and loves of the painter as well as filmmaker Luis Bunuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca.

West added that the project will focus not only on Dali’s outrageous lifestyle but his lifelong love affair with Gala, his wife, muse and manipulative manager.

Filming is set to start in the first quarter of 2009 in Spain and England.