Newswire Pacino to play Kevorkian, let him introduce you to his leetle suicide machine

by Josh Modell May 27, 2009

Academy Award winner Al Pacino, whose recent credits include, umm, 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill, will play euthanasia champion Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian in an upcoming HBO movie directed by Barry Levinson, according to Variety. While Kevorkian doesn't have Pacino's wild hair or natural charisma, he does have many more real-life kills under his belt, so that's got to count for something. Ol' Jack is also a hell of a speechifier--witness some of his remarks below, given at an exhibition of some of his super-creepy paintings. (Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty much all for his work, but the dude is pretty creepy.) Can Pacino make him creepier?

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