It's when you kill a girl you've only talked to a couple times and put her in the trunk of your car.

I think Anika's value, not to Lucious but to Cookie, is that Lucious is such an egotist he can't fathom her crawling back to him as anything but sincere. If her espionage skills improve this would be the occasion for it.

If only time-travel existed so a young De Niro could play Edwin. (Seriously, it's eerie.)

Whoops, you're right. It's been a while since I read Common Ground.

I am, on the other hand, really glad that whole experience didn't cow Ava DuVernay into playing ball re: racial issues in her public statements since.

Okay, sorry, one more: Mayor Kevin White averting riots in Boston the night Martin Luther King was killed by convincing James Brown to do an unscheduled concert.

How could we forget Nichelle Nichols nearly leaving the show before no less a person than Martin Luther King tells her she has to stay because, in so many words, Uhura's the coolest black character on TV?

Another one I can't believe I forgot: Howard University students going all Les Miserables in response to the school naming Lee Atwater to its Board of Trustees in the wake of the Willie Horton ad.

Part of me thinks Michael Pitt for Zevon because he's one of the few people who can bring the noise in terms of not-all-there intensity, but another part of me would like the movie to ever finish production.

Oh my God I want that so so so bad. I've wanted it for so long my ideal casting used to be Johnny Depp as Zevon and James Franco as Jackson Browne back when their names on something made me want to see it.

Thought that was a typo for a second and was freaking out that Nick Offerman had done that.
As it is, sounds like a Kirk Cameron role if ever I heard one.

Knowing as we do that the famous falling-house-facade-with-Keaton-directly-under-the-window gag was actually an unplanned, potentially-fatal scenery malfunction, I'd love to see that done with actual dramatic tension behind it.

True stuff: the archaic definition of "filibuster" is someone who does basically what Walker did. Not sure how it came to acquire its modern meaning.

I would also argue that Lincoln's staff are the co-protagonists, or at the very least in the John Watson role, i.e. the characters who serve as our eyes while the ostensible protagonist is much more of a mystery comparatively.

Ohhhh I love that. And let's throw in Dean Norris as Roger Boisjoly.

Walt Disney confirmed for minor Elmore Leonard villain who ends up having to be saved from the major one.

I would especially love if the Garfield one was structured so that his death was interspersed with Charles Giuteau's downward spiral leading to the assassination. Talk about a real actor's role.

And going way earlier, where's my damn Ida B. Wells biopic?

I did see that; I mostly remember it making living with a spinal injury seem so excruciating that I came away thinking not even he deserved it.

Also it's slightly broader than most of these but I think a really good biopic would be George Wallace's early career when all the populism was there but none of the conservatism and ending with him losing in a landslide to a segregationist, leading to his vow to "never be out-n——red again." Revenge of the Sith,…