AL PACINO IS SET TO PLAY DR. DEATH
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
28.05.2009 16:00 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In Barry Levinson’s film shot for HBO TV channel,
Al Pacino is set to play Jack Kevorkian, better known with the nickname
Doctor Death. The film tells about the period when Kevorkian built the
‘Mercy Machine’ for conducting his first assisted suicide.
Scenario author is Adam Mazer. Project time-limits are not yet
specified. Confirmed proponent of physician assisted death, Jack
Kevorkian had euthanasia legalized. In 1990-98, he assisted in 130
cases of suicide. Patients’ bodies were left in motels, hospital
wards and mortuaries. Charges were brought against him in 1999 when
law enforcers gained access to a video tape portraying the suicide of
Thomas York, 52. Kevorkian was sentenced to 8 years in prison, and was
released in 2007. At the end of 2008, Kevorkian, 80, ran for Congress
elections. He was an independent candidate from one of constituencies
of Detroit. Having received 2.7% of votes, the doctor suffered defeat.