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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Al Pacino in negotiations for Dr. Jack Kevorkian's biopic

The portrayal will be more interesting if veteran actor Al Pacino will seal the deal for the upcoming biopic movie of the controversial-notorious Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
According to THR, Al Pacino is in negotiations to star in "You Don't Know Jack," an HBO Films biopic about Dr. Jack Kevorkian that Barry Levinson will direct.

Kevorkian, also known as Dr. Death, assisted in more than 150 cases of suicide and had beaten the state court system in Michigan numerous times, but was finally convicted after he willingly sent a videotape of himself euthanizing a terminally ill man to "60 Minutes." He was convicted of second-degree murder in 1999 and is serving his sentence in a maximum-security prison in Michigan.
Barry Levinson is set to direct the film, from a script by Adam Mazer (Breach), which is loosely based off the book, "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Assisted Suicide Machine and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia" by Neal Nicol.

Always an A+ acting every time an Al Pacino is involved in a film.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

With Mazer's writing , Levinson directing and Pacino to star- this will be genius!

Brian Rush said...

Adam Mazer's writing in Breach was outstanding, lets hope he hits a home run on this one.

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