Maybe I'm more optimistic than I should be, but I tend to agree. Joe's part in this has been beat to death. I would be more interested in this project if it challenged what I have been told to believe, rather than just regurgitate the narrative.
FC: Pacino officially playing Joe in an HBO production
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I fixed your glaring typo...
knowing Pacino and his choice of roles, it seems he would be more interested in playing the fall from grace of a good man versus someone who "won at all costs" and it eventually came back to bite him in the ass
Too bad Sherman Hemsley died. He would have played Ken Frazier dead on.
Couldn't you just picture him saying, "Weezy, stop wavin' your hands around."I could see that.
Much too slenderit's a shame Frank Senger passed away . . .
The portrayal of ScottPa could be one of the more memorable aspects of the film. I don't know him personally, but he seems to be quite a character.
The sad, ironic thing is if it were not for his own incompetence, he'd be but a chubby footnote in any JVP movie.
It's of critical importance that you got the chubby reference in there. Clearly calling him incompetent was not enough.
How should Ziegler be portrayed?
It's of critical importance that you got the chubby reference in there. Clearly calling him incompetent was not enough.
How should Ziegler be portrayed?
Applying artistic license, let roxine play the arresting officer.
Or?
Hmm...Hollywood could portray Ziegler as a mole who worked for the Old Main Reich.
Why would JZ be in this picture?
As for Scott, look back at the transcript of his call w/ JZ - all the unhinged references to "his name", "his kid's name"...2 things:
1) You're supposed to succeed in life based on your accomplishments, not your name.
2) I wonder how Jon Sandusky felt about Scott's front yard proclamations and what they did to his name.
As for Scott, look back at the transcript of his call w/ JZ - all the unhinged references to "his name", "his kid's name"...2 things:
1) You're supposed to succeed in life based on your accomplishments, not your name.
2) I wonder how Jon Sandusky felt about Scott's front yard proclamations and what they did to his name.
Personally, I think this will end bad. No matter how Joe is portrayed in the movie, unless he is portrayed as a 100% saint, there will be people on here ripping the movie.
The list of people who succeeded in life due to their name is miles long.Why would JZ be in this picture?
As for Scott, look back at the transcript of his call w/ JZ - all the unhinged references to "his name", "his kid's name"...2 things:
1) You're supposed to succeed in life based on your accomplishments, not your name.
2) I wonder how Jon Sandusky felt about Scott's front yard proclamations and what they did to his name.
Another wave of press releases making the rounds today:
Al Pacino to Star as Penn State Coach Joe Paterno in New HBO Movie From Barry Levinson
JUNE 5, 2017 | 11:00AM PT
Al Pacino will star as former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in a new HBO movie to be directed by Barry Levinson, Variety has learned.
The official logline for the film reads: “After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure on behalf of the victims.”
Paterno, often referred to as JoePa, is widely regarded as the best college football coach of all time. However, his career came to a sudden halt in 2011 when assistant coach Sandusky’s crimes came to light, with a 2012 report concluding that Paterno and other Penn State officials were aware of Sandusky’s actions but chose to look the other way.
Levinson will direct and executive produce through his Levinson/Fontana banner, with Jason Sosnoff and Tom Fontana also executive producing. Edward Pressman and Linday Sloane will also executive produce, along with Rick Nicita through his RP Media Company. Debora Cahn, John C. Richards, and David McKenna will write. The film will be produced in association with Sony Pictures Television.
The currently untitled Paterno film marks Pacino’s latest in a string of HBO projects, along with the Jack Kevorkian biopic “You Don’t Know Jack,” “Phil Spector,” which followed the murder trial of the music business legend, and the mini-series “Angels in America.” Levinson directed and executive produced “You Don’t Know Jack,” as well as executive produced “Phil Spector.” The pair also collaborated on the 2014 film “The Humbling.”
Al Pacino to Star as Penn State Coach Joe Paterno in New HBO Movie From Barry Levinson
JUNE 5, 2017 | 11:00AM PT
Al Pacino will star as former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in a new HBO movie to be directed by Barry Levinson, Variety has learned.
The official logline for the film reads: “After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure on behalf of the victims.”
Paterno, often referred to as JoePa, is widely regarded as the best college football coach of all time. However, his career came to a sudden halt in 2011 when assistant coach Sandusky’s crimes came to light, with a 2012 report concluding that Paterno and other Penn State officials were aware of Sandusky’s actions but chose to look the other way.
Levinson will direct and executive produce through his Levinson/Fontana banner, with Jason Sosnoff and Tom Fontana also executive producing. Edward Pressman and Linday Sloane will also executive produce, along with Rick Nicita through his RP Media Company. Debora Cahn, John C. Richards, and David McKenna will write. The film will be produced in association with Sony Pictures Television.
The currently untitled Paterno film marks Pacino’s latest in a string of HBO projects, along with the Jack Kevorkian biopic “You Don’t Know Jack,” “Phil Spector,” which followed the murder trial of the music business legend, and the mini-series “Angels in America.” Levinson directed and executive produced “You Don’t Know Jack,” as well as executive produced “Phil Spector.” The pair also collaborated on the 2014 film “The Humbling.”
I am confident this will be a thorough, well-reasoned, logical depiction of the events in question.Another wave of press releases making the rounds today:
Al Pacino to Star as Penn State Coach Joe Paterno in New HBO Movie From Barry Levinson
JUNE 5, 2017 | 11:00AM PT
Al Pacino will star as former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in a new HBO movie to be directed by Barry Levinson, Variety has learned.
The official logline for the film reads: “After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure on behalf of the victims.”
Paterno, often referred to as JoePa, is widely regarded as the best college football coach of all time. However, his career came to a sudden halt in 2011 when assistant coach Sandusky’s crimes came to light, with a 2012 report concluding that Paterno and other Penn State officials were aware of Sandusky’s actions but chose to look the other way.
Levinson will direct and executive produce through his Levinson/Fontana banner, with Jason Sosnoff and Tom Fontana also executive producing. Edward Pressman and Linday Sloane will also executive produce, along with Rick Nicita through his RP Media Company. Debora Cahn, John C. Richards, and David McKenna will write. The film will be produced in association with Sony Pictures Television.
The currently untitled Paterno film marks Pacino’s latest in a string of HBO projects, along with the Jack Kevorkian biopic “You Don’t Know Jack,” “Phil Spector,” which followed the murder trial of the music business legend, and the mini-series “Angels in America.” Levinson directed and executive produced “You Don’t Know Jack,” as well as executive produced “Phil Spector.” The pair also collaborated on the 2014 film “The Humbling.”
I am confident this will be a thorough, well-reasoned, logical depiction of the events in question.
Good. I love happy endings.
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I doubt that it will be that overt............... but I am quite sure the message will be transmitted.
Dan Bernstein and George Diaz have gotten credits for the screenplay.
I hope you are right, but believe you will be disappointed along with the rest of us. I'm afraid I will soon have grounds to dislike Al Pacino.
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How were his portrayals of Kevorkian and Specter? Those will probably be a good blueprint for how 'the truth' is portrayed here. I didn't watch either, but they look like 'caricature' parts in sensationalist movies - not at all interested in the truth. More interested in telling what people believe to be the truth.
Also worth noting this film doesn't appear in either Pacino's or Levinson's IMDb profile...
If you go "over the mountains" from Salzburg to escape, as they did in the movie, you end up in....
...Germany
I'd be taking a look at the new Bernie Madoff movie that he's in....
Probably just as important to understand Levinson's approach.
LINK: Portraying the Man Known as Dr. Death
"Mr. Pacino and Barry Levinson, the director of the film, said in an interview last week that they had no desire to deliver a polemic. In a time of furor over so-called death panels, which became part of the health care debate even though there was no such apparatus in the bill, the pair said the film was not intended to settle the profound moral and legal issues surrounding Dr. Kevorkian, but to create a nuanced portrait of a man who has lived in headlines and incendiary sound bites."
LINK: Gone, Gone, Gone (Woah Oh Oh)
Hard to be overly sympathetic to Spector.
As Cutler puts it, “There is nothing redeeming in our guy.”
Watch our BOT give them permission to use Penn State facilities....
