Brian De Palma To Direct Al Pacino In Film About Joe Paterno

This will be the third collaboration between the two.

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Brian De Palma has signed on to helm a movie about disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, titled Happy Valley. The movie will star Al Pacino as Paterno, and it will be based on the best-selling book by sports journalist Joe Posnanski, simply titled Paterno.

Happy Valley reunites the Scarface and Carlito’s Way team of De Palma and Pacino for the third time, and I can’t think of a better duo to tell this story of a complex, intensely righteous man who was brought down by his own tragic flaw,” producer Edward R. Pressman said in a statement.

The book follows the span of Paterno’s entire life – from coach to legend to scandal. Writer David McKenna (American History X) is currently in talks to script the film.

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[via THR]

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