Photos of Al Pacino as Spector and Details About the Film Emerge!

(Al Pacino as Phil Spector for upcoming HBO bio-film)

The photos of Al Pacino as Phil Spector are out and he couldn’t look more like Phil Spector if he was Phil Spector.
It’s very hard to get me to admit I’m excited about any forth coming artistic projects, but I can name three, really. I’m still quite excited about the Metallica/Lou Reed collaboration. That’s coming out supposedly in November. No one’s clear on the status of Human Centipede 2 now that it’s been in banned in the U.K., but I’m hoping that will be released in the states soon. The other one that I’ve been watching for very closely is this HBO film about Phil Spector that’s coming out with Al Pacino as Spector. The film is already being protested and it hasn’t even finished shooting.
It was written by the play write David Mamet. There’s a book I’ve been meaning to read that Mamet wrote recently about how he’s now abandoned the political left for the political right. However, that doesn’t even have anything to do with the controversy about the Spector film. The controversy is that Mamet says he thinks Spector is actually innocent! Hence, those once close to the late Lana Clarkson have proceeded to flip out. I sort of think that calling Phil Spector a cold-blooded killer is reductive because he was heavily intoxicated and off his psyche meds, but innocent- that he didn’t pull the trigger- that’s quite a belief.
Here’s the link…I’m not making this one up….

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/08/03/friends-phil-spectors-murder-victim-outraged-over-upcoming-hbo-movie/

You want to talk about a work of cinematic art Al Pacino looks exactly like Phil Spector. Those wigs Phil Spector became as iconic an image of madness and Michael Jackson’s plastic surgery, but it’s about something more then just Pacino in a wig. Pacino seems to have the facial expressions, the body language- all the elements- 100% down.


Looks like a classic!