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If I Wrote The Opening Scene to the Barry Levinson/Al Pacino Penn State Movie

Spoiler Alert:  I don't know Barry Levinson . Also, I am not close personal friends with Al Pacino . But I have been fascinated by the recent announcement that Levinson will be directing, and Pacino will be starring, in an HBO movie  about Penn State, tentatively called "Happy Valley" . The official logline for the film reads: ā€œAfter becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn Stateā€™s Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure on behalf of the victims.ā€ I don't know Levinson, or Pacino, and I know there's already three pro writers on this project already whom I also don't know personally (for the record,  Debora Cahn ( Grey's Anatomy ) , John C. Richards ( Nurse Betty ), and David McKenna ( American History X )).  I also know that it's based on the book by Joe Posanski (called Paterno , released shortly after the S...