Legendary actor Al Pacino will portray former Penn State college football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming movie for HBO.
A film about the scandal, to star Al Pacino as Joe Paterno was talked about as early as 2012, and a version of it with John Carroll Lynch as Sandusky and with Brian De Palma directing, was announced in early 2013, to be titled Happy Valley and based on Joe Posnanski’s 2012 biography of the late coach.
Pacino will star in a movie about Paterno for HBO, now to be directed by Barry Levinson, Deadline reported Monday.
A few documentaries, the best of which was Amir Bar-Lev’s 2014 Happy Valley, have delved into the story before.