Date 06/06/2017 - News People
On Tuesday HBO announced that Al Pacino will star as late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming biographical film which will be directed by Barry Levinson. HBO says the film will focus on Paterno dealing with the fallout from the child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky in November of 2011. A report commissioned by the university concluded that Paterno and three administrators hushed up the allegations against Sandusky.
