Al Pacino's Joe Paterno Fights for Job in New Biopic Trailer
Joe Paterno
Al Pacino's Joe Paterno  fights for  his  legacy and  his  job at Penn State in the first full trailer for Paterno  the HBO film about the football coach in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Directed by Barry Levinson â who previously cast Pacino to lead HBO biopics about Jack Kevorkian (You Don't Know Jack) and Phil Spector (Phil Spector) â Paterno also stars Riley Keough as a newspaper reporter digging into how much the legendary coach  who spent 45 years at the helm of Penn State  knew about the child molestation accusations against Sandusky  a longtime defensive coordinator on  Paterno 's staff.
The film also examines  Paterno 's unceremonious retirement and termination in 2011 and the riots that broke out near campus after  Paterno  was let go. "All these people should be screaming about the victims  not Joe " one student says of the riots in the trailer. The preview also finds Pacino's  Paterno  wrestling with his own relationship with Sandusky.
Less than two months after his firing  Paterno  the winningest coach in college football history  died of lung cancer in January 2012 at the age of 85.  Paterno  premieres April 7th on HBO.
[TGT] fights for   [TGT]   legacy and   [TGT]   job at Penn State in the first full trailer for Paterno  the HBO film about the football coach in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Directed by Barry Levinson â who previously cast Pacino to lead HBO biopics about Jack Kevorkian (You Don't Know Jack) and Phil Spector (Phil Spector) â Paterno also stars Riley Keough as a newspaper reporter digging into how much the legendary coach  who spent 45 years at the helm of Penn State  knew about the child molestation accusations against Sandusky  a longtime defensive coordinator on  Paterno 's staff.
The film also examines  Paterno 's unceremonious retirement and termination in 2011 and the riots that broke out near campus after  Paterno  was let go. "All these people should be screaming about the victims  not Joe " one student says of the riots in the trailer. The preview also finds Pacino's  Paterno  wrestling with his own relationship with Sandusky.
Less than two months after his firing  Paterno  the winningest coach in college football history  died of lung cancer in January 2012 at the age of 85.  Paterno  premieres April 7th on HBO.