By Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

ADAMS STREET — Actors Al Pacino and John Goodman will be back in Brooklyn Supreme Court soon, but not for a lawsuit or civil matter.

Filming for the HBO film “You Don’t Know Jack,� starring Pacino as famed assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, is scheduled to resume tomorrow in Brooklyn Supreme Court Civil Term. Goodman, Susan Sarandon, and Brooklyn Heights resident Todd Susman are also in the movie.

Some court staff saw Goodman walking around the fourth floor on Sept. 8, when filming was previously taking place. (He plays Neal Nicol, Kevorkian’s real-life friend and author of the book this movie is based on.) Now Pacino is expected to show up for filming that was scheduled for Sept. 30 to Oct. 4.

Kevorkian, 81, helped an estimated 130 people end their lives and was subsequently convicted of second-degree murder. He was released from prison in 2007 and now occasionally gives lectures.

Filming was taking place on Friday outside the court in Columbus Park, albeit without the more famous actors.

Busy Brooklynites were interrupted in their morning walk by bossy production assistants. Troops of extras — dressed to look like typical Brooklynites, but nonetheless appearing somewhat more theatrical — were sent back and forth in a silent ballet on the stone path beside the Borough Hall fountain.

Filming for the movie, which is expected to be a black comedy, has taken place in a variety of Brooklyn locales, including Sheepshead Bay.

And director Barry Levinson was spotted purposefully striding down Montague Street Friday afternoon with two assistants – presumably to scout the Brooklyn Heights promenade as a possible location.

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