UPI reports that Hollywood filmmaker Barry Levinson has agreed to direct Al Pacino in an HBO movie, "You Don't Know Jack," about assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian. The movie will follow Kevorkian through his formative years as a “doctor of death,” including his invention of the Mercitron (mercy machine) and his first assisted suicide.Adam Mazer is writing the script, based on Harry Wylie and Neal Nicol's book Between the Dying and the Dead about Kevorkian. Apparently, at one stage, Ben Kingsley was attached to play Kevorkian in the film, which has been in development for some time.
Kevorkian assisted in more than 150 cases of suicide and was found guilty of second degree murder 10 years ago after he videotaped a procedure involving a terminally ill man and sent it to the US television show '60 Minutes'. The 81-year-old received a 10 to 25-year sentence but was paroled last June.
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