MUMBAI: Al Pacino is in negotiations to star in an HBO Films biopic about Dr. Jack Kevorkian titled You Don't Know Jack that Barry Levinson will direct.

Kevorkian, also known as Dr. Death, assisted in more than 150 cases of suicide and had beaten the state court system in Michigan numerous times, but was finally convicted after he willingly sent a videotape of himself euthanizing a terminally ill man to 60 Minutes.

He was convicted of second-degree murder in 1999 and is serving his sentence in a maximum-security prison in Michigan.

The film will trace his rise as he builds his infamous 'Mercy Machine', conducts his first assisted suicide and starts a media frenzy with his epic legal battles defending a patient's right to die.