He won an Emmy award for starring as controversial doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian in the 2010 HBO film You Don’t Know Jack, and record producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector in an upcoming biopic for the cable channel. The actor has played several real-life characters lately. Pacino, 72, previously played fictional football coach Tony D’Amato in Oliver Stone’s 1999 movie Any Given Sunday. The author incorporated the scandal into the book, including his own personal conversations with Paterno about what happened, and the book was published last month. Posnanski began writing the book in 2011 - which also includes Paterno’s life before Penn State - with Paterno’s co-operation before the scandal broke. An independent report released in July said Penn State leaders, including Paterno, covered up Sandusky’s abuse for years, showing a callous disregard for the victims to protect a multi-million-dollar football programme. Paterno died of lung cancer in January at age 85, two months after he was fired. HBO has unveiled a first look photo of the actor in character as the football coach for the cabler’s upcoming project directed by Barry Levinson. A jury later convicted Sandusky of 45 of the 48 counts against him. Paterno was fired in November 2011 after his former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, was accused of child abuse over 15 years. There is no screenplay written and no director attached to the project, which has yet to find a home at a film studio or television network. Pacino’s talent agency ICM on Monday confirmed Deadline’s account but had no further details. The film would be based on the best-selling biography Paterno, written by sportswriter Joe Posnanski. ![]() Il nous racontera l'histoire de Joe Paterno (Al Pacino), ce coach lgendaire des Nittany Lions de Penn State (Pennsylvanie), une quipe de football amricain, plong dans la tourmente suite aux accusations menes. Un film crit par trois scnaristes et ralis par Barry Levinson (Rain Man). Considering Paterno's recent death, is it tactful to harp on JoePa's involvement in the Sandusky scandal so soon? That may be left for audiences to decide.Hollywood industry website reported that the Oscar-winning actor has expressed an interest in playing Paterno, who fell from grace in a paedophile scandal that rocked the United States last year. Base sur des faits rels, Paterno est la dernire cration commande par la chane HBO. The progress on this production is all in very early dealmaking stages, but with subject matter this controversial, it's likely that this will find financing and a filmmaking squad very quickly. The film will also concentrate on Paterno's life before the scandal, depicting how he built the Penn State football program from essentially nothing into a powerhouse team in the 1980s. When this was discovered in a 2011 federal investigation, Paterno was fired and died shortly afterwards, after coaching the program for 45 years and becoming one of the most famous figures in college sports in the process. So when Pacino is out here sounding like this, it is absolutely incredible. 5, 2005, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno acknowledges the crowd during warm-ups before the NCAA college football game against Wisconsin in State College, Pa. In real life, Paterno used his influence to convince Penn State officials not to call the authorities when a graduate assistant reported Sandusky raping a boy in the shower to Paterno instead of the police. Paterno, prior to his passing in 2012, was known for having a high-pitched, almost squeaky, and mild-mannered voice. ![]() This is still a hot-button issue in America, so it will be very interesting to see how the yet-to-be-determined filmmakers will handle Paterno's role in Sandusky's sickening activities. Deadline has the report, which says that Al Pacino will star as Paterno in the project, which will be based on Joe Posnanski’s biography of the late coach that's become a New York Times best-selling book. It happened with Ray Charles, it's happening with Steve Jobs, and now it's happening with the late Joe Paterno, former head football coach of Penn State who was the winningest coach of all time before many of his wins were stripped away following assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's sex scandal with young boys. Too soon? It seems that when every major media figure passes away, a movie about him or her isn't too far off.
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