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Tale of quirky character troubled by a guilty past due to start shooting in Los Angeles this autumn
Al Pacino has signed up to play the title role in the drama Mangelhorn for US film-maker David Gordon Green, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Pacino will play AJ Mangelhorn, described as an eccentric man coming to terms with a past crime. The previously unheralded screenwriter Paul Logan has adapted the script from an idea he originally conceived with Green. The film, which is currently being touted to potential buyers at the Cannes film festival, is due to shoot in Los Angeles this autumn.
Since the turn of the century, Green has graduated (some might say regressed) from thoughtful small-town dramas such as George Washington and All the Real Girls to stoner comedies such as Pineapple Express and Your Highness, confusing many critics in the process. His latest film, Prince Avalanche, is an indie comedy remake of the Icelandic film Either Way, which won the ever-mercurial Green the Silver Bear for best director at this year's Berlin film festival and served to remind audiences of his continuing potential.
Next up is an adaptation of the late Larry Brown's 1991 novel Joe. The southern drama stars Nicolas Cage as an ex-con who becomes an unlikely role model to a troubled 15-year-old boy.
Pacino's forthcoming projects include the title role in HBO's Phil Spector, about the disgraced music producer, and the long-gestating mob tale Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father, in which he plays a key member of the Gambino crime family.
