Al Pacino is attached to play former Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming biopic, based on Joe Posnanski's biography, Paterno.

The book will delve into the coach's life before becoming PSU's head football coach back in 1966, the influence he had over the school, and his eventual downfall after last year's scandal that rocked Happy Valley and the entire college football community. Jerry Sandusky, Penn State's defensive coordinator, was revealed as a pedophile who sexually assaulted young boys for decades. Joe Paterno was fired after 46 years at the school, for his role in trying to cover up the scandal. He died in January at the age of 85.

It is said that the project could be developed for either a feature film or a TV movie at this point, although it isn't known if a screenwriter has been brought on board to adapt the non-fiction book. Al Pacino has already played a football coach in Oliver Stone's 1999 drama Any Given Sunday, although the torrid events portrayed in that fictional film pale in comparison to this real-life scandal.