First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the... football? Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino could be appearing in movie theaters soon playing former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in a movie about the Jerry Sandusky scandal, according to Deadline New York. The movie will be based off Joe Posnanski's best-selling biography of the coach, Paterno, and reportedly will be shopped around to movie studios next week. While the project is still in its early stages, it's expected to get picked up pretty quickly, considering the high profile of the Sandusky scandal and Pacino's star...
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