HBO To Do Kevorkian Film
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Films is developing a movie about Jack Kevorkian, the advocate of doctor-assisted suicide who was paroled from prison in June.
The film focuses on the development of Kevorkian’s controversial methods and subsequent action involving physician-assisted suicide, which led to his eight-year imprisonment in Michigan.
Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie’s book “Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia” is being used as source material.
Steve Jones and Glenn Rigberg are executive producing, while Nicol is serving as a consultant. The script is being written by Adam Mazer, who co-wrote the film “Breach,” released this year.
Kevorkian assisted in at least 130 suicides and had beaten the state court system in Michigan numerous times, but he was convicted in 1999 after he willingly sent a videotape of himself euthanizing a terminally ill man to CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
He received a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder — serving his sentence in a maximum-security prison in Michigan — but earned time off for good behavior.
