Al Pacino is Joe Paterno in Biopic Including Penn State Sex Scandal

Too soon? It seems that when every major media figure passes away, a movie about him or her isn’t too far off. It happened with Ray Charles, it’s happening with Steve Jobs, and now it’s happening with the late Joe Paterno, former head football coach of Penn State who was the winningest coach of all time before many of his wins were stripped away following assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s sex scandal with young boys. Deadline has the report, which says that Al Pacino will star as Paterno in the project, which will be based on Joe Posnanski’s biography of the late coach that’s become a New York Times best-selling book. Read on! This is still a hot-button issue in America, so it will be very interesting to see how the yet-to-be-determined filmmakers will handle Paterno’s role in Sandusky’s sickening activities. In real life, Paterno used his influence to convince Penn State …