Hoo-hah! Al Pacino’s real-time murder mystery, 88 Minutes – in which he plays a college professor who’s told that he will be murdered in, well, you guessed it – is finally going ahead, after an extensive period in development.
How do we know this? Well, filming starts in Vancouver on Saturday, which is a major clue, and today the main supporting cast was announced. The three lucky souls who have to look on in awe as Big Al tries to swallow the scenery are Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, and Neal McDonough.
Witt, who’s some 35 years younger than Pacino, will nonetheless play his teaching assistant love interest. Sobieski will play one of his students, while McDonough will assay a Death Row inmate whom Pacino – who also happens to be an FBI psychologist in his spare time - suspects is instrumental in the death threat. So it’s bound to be him, then.
Jon Avnet will direct. It all sounds interesting, so needless to say we’re going to keep an eye on it. Hoo-hah!