Churchill biopics we deserve
We've had enough beach talk.
I did a tour of the Houses of Parliament in London all the way back in April - thank you for arranging Claire, you are a star - and during the House of Lords bit our tour guide told us about how during World War 2 the MPs met in that gilded room as the other one had been damaged during bombing. He said that on the table in the centre of the room remained marks from Churchill banging on it during speeches and dragging his ring-heavy knuckles along the wood. That’s how you make a proper point. Leave a trail. Groovy.
I haven’t seen that biopic about Churchill with Sirius Black wearing prosthetics and I probably never will. I haven’t even bothered with Dunkirk. The Mamma Mia 2 mashup is the closest I’ll get and I suspect that’ll do. However, I do want to see some temporally focused biopics about Churchill. Hollywood, I have not copyrighted any of these ideas because they are history.
How about a really tense drama about the moral cases for and against biological warfare? Aaron Sorkin could script it. Battlestar Galactica did that in an episode. Turns out there is no moral case for chemical weapons. During decade number two of the 20th century Churchill wrote a lot of memos about using gas on troops and civilians.
The BBC are really good at frenetic screwball-ish political black comedies. I have seen The Thick of It and there was a show about the London Olympics, AKA the seeds of Brexit, which was meant to be decent. The Bengal famine of 1943 could be the perfect fit for a bureaucratic decisions script.
A Marvel Universe framework where Churchill is Nick Fury getting all those countries in the Middle East lined up for decades of unrest. Hello franchise!
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