Al Pacino to Play Dr. Jack Kevorkian in HBO Telepic - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Zoneboy · 05-26-2009, 06:38 PM

Al Pacino has been set to star in an HBO telepic about right-to-die champion Dr. Jack Kevorkian, to be helmed by Barry Levinson.
Pic revolves around Kervorkian's construction of his infamous "Mercy Machine," his first assisted suicide in the early 1990s and the resulting media frenzy.

Script was penned by Adam Mazer. Levinson, Steve Lee Jones, Lydia Dean Pilcher and Glenn Rigberg will exec produce.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=14&cs=1

TJL · 05-26-2009, 07:05 PM

Hoo-ha!

catlover79 · 05-26-2009, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by TJL

Hoo-ha!

browneyes106 · 05-26-2009, 10:14 PM

I can sort of picture Pacino as Kevorkian.

05-26-2009, 06:38 PM	#1
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05-26-2009, 10:14 PM	#4
browneyes106 Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Apr 01, 2008 Posts: 6,094	I can sort of picture Pacino as Kevorkian.