HBO has revealed its first photo of Al Pacino as Joe Paterno in an upcoming movie about the fallen Penn State football coach.
Reteaming with his You Don’t Know Jack director Barry Levinson for the Paterno film, Pacino is sure to give us a riveting look into the mind of the college football legend during the biggest crisis in his career before his death at age 85 in 2012.
Like he did for You Don’t Know Jack and Phil Spector, Pacino seems to have literally transformed himself into the guise of the real-life Paterno, whose looks were accented by trademark thick, black-framed glasses.
In a side-by-side comparison photo by Deadline, there’s no doubt a resemblance between Pacino and the late Paterno, although Pacino clearly has a thinner face than his square-jawed real-life subject.