Al Pacino signs up for HBO film about Dr Jack Kevorkian
Dr. Jack Kevorkian of Michigan spent nearly 20 years of his life campaigning for the legal right to help his patients who were committed to suicide to do so pain free via physician-assisted suicide. He claimed to have helped 130 patients commit suicide, but was convicted in 1999 for second-degree murder after recording the assisted suicide of one of his patients and allowing it to be broadcast on TV. He served eight years of a 10-to-25 year sentence in prison before being released in 2007.
Al Pacino is set to star as Kevorkian in the biopic for HBO Films. Adam Mazer (”Breach”, which starred Ryan Phillippe and Gary Cooper) will write the script based on the book ‘Between the Dying and the Dead’, which was written about Kevorkian by Harry Wylie and Neal Nicol.
Barry Levinson (Good Morning, Vietnam, Rain Man, Wag The Dog) will direct.
No release date is currently set, but we’ll be sure to keep you updated. With Pacino and Levinson on board, and with such a poignant subject matter, this could definitely be one to watch for major awards consideration.
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