JoePa about to get the Bernie Madoff treatment
HBO is making a docu-movie about Paterno, and the Sandusky scandal - starring Al Pacino as Paterno.
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/report-al-pacino-to-play…
But I like it. Place reeks of sleaze
My first thought is if this is a Penn State inside production to socially exonerate that sleaze bag JoPa. Here's the list of people involved if anyone wants to bother to see if Penn State grads are amiss. :
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.
Levinson is an American U grade here in DC.
Fontana is SUNY Buffalo.
Pressman is a well established film producer from NYC so no sniff of Nittany on him.
Sloane does not appear to have attended college (I may be wrong).
Nicita is like Pressman.
Cahn passes the sniff test too.
Richards looks like U of Windsor?
Too lazy to look up McKenna.
Overall looks like we won't be seeing any cognitive dissonance impacting this project. But if they end up kissing Paterno's ass I'll be pretty steamed because fuck JoPa.
Barry Levinson's "Sleepers" stands out to me as relevant here: in "Sleepers" four sexually abused Catholic school boys get revenge on the prison guard/s who victimized them in custody. That alone tells me that this film will be ruthless.
same. particularly as a catholic school kid.
particular concept seems misguided. Casting Pacino in the lead suggests that Paterno will be presented somewhat sympathetically. I think such a delicate project could possibly be pulled off with the benefit of time and reflection, but certainly not right now.
Satan - (YTS) in his career.
Don't be so sure this will by a sympathetic portrayal of Paterno.
Just when he thought he was out, they pull him back in
Don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry.
It would be awesome if Pacino only agreed to play the part if he was allowed to portray Paterno using the voice of that cock-a-roach Tony Montana. And if he got in a fight with Sue Paterno in one scene and leaned over to Sandusky and said, "Is OK Jerry, another quaalude and she gonna love me again!"
I'm expecting a scene where Pacino says to Sandusky "I know it was you Jerry, you broke my heart" before giving him a kiss
But Fredo pulled away in fear. Jerry Sandusky would lean into that sucker with joy...
Even better if he had a twinkle in his eye for Jo Pa.
the exception of Satan, he basically made all of those characters sympathetic. That is kind of my point.
paint it black first
I see it!
In "Donnie Brasco" the focus of the story was changed to feature Pacino's Lefty character far more than the true story warranted. In fact, it took a lot of work to persuade Pacino that Lefty was the only part in that movie that fit him. The price of getting Pacino to play ball was to give Lefty more lines and make him more sympathetic.
The Brasco/Sonny Black relationship was in real life the far more important one, and Sonny Black was also a much more interesting character, with a few traits that go against the typical mob crew boss persona.
I'd worry about being typecast...
Pacino is a great actor and could also play him as being just as guilty as Sandusky for everything that happened and villify him even more, well at least to everyone but PSU fans. It will all depend on the script, but I doubt they are doing this movie to make any of them look innocent and needing sympathy, with what happened there.
HBO takes some daring angles. I don't expect the portrayel to be apologetic, but expect it to be nuanced with regard to Paterno - probably a lot more nuanced than most people on this blog will approve of.
That could be the case, but I sincerely doubt it. Given that several are now going to jail for knowing and not acting, HBO making Paterno look in any way innocent or even as existing in some "different opinions can be had here" gray area would lead a LOT of folks to go after HBO. I think they include at least one scene where he is shown to find out and does nothing...
If it costs HBO a lot of money, wouldn't that take be a daring angle? So is HBO daring or not?
HBO took on Scientology in 2015. You really can't get more ballsy than that, especially in Hollywood.
You sure you didn't mean Pitino? Seems like a natural to play a Penn State coach
your whole comment is out of order.....
"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," the movie's official logline reads, per Variety.
Umm wasn't Joe part of the failure? I have a feeling we're going to be white-outed.
This doesn't seem like a good idea, unless HBO plans to donate all profits to victims of childhood sexual abuse.
kind of what I was getting at above. This is a no-win project, and I suspect a very bad move for Pacino. I hope he practices his interview answers at length because he is going to asked some tricky questions.
HBO has been talking about this since 2012! 5 years!
Al Pacino (who is 77 years old --- WHOA) will be dead himself before the movie starts at this rate.
http://deadline.com/2012/09/joe-paterno-movie-al-pacino-penn-state-grid…
That is all.
Disgusting
This sounds dumb blah blah blah..
BTW FUCK PSU and their delusional Joepa loving fans!
Danke!
I thought JoePa could always blame not seeing any wrongdoing on his spectacles. Talk about coke bottles, those fucking things could harness the sun and burn all types of matter.
Seriously, if Pacino plays it like DeNiro did with Bernie I think sympathy will be the last thing we feel for JoePa.