Barry Levinson ("The Natural") is attached to direct, working with screenwriter Adam Mazer, who wrote Levinson's HBO biopic on Jack Kevorkian, "You Don't Know Jack, " which Rigberg exec produced.

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But he lost out to Al Pacino, who scooped a rare TV award for his role as an advocate of doctor-assisted suicide in You Don't Know Jack.

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And, you know, I don't know if there's a parallel for Bonds unless you want to go all the way back to Jack Johnson.

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