# Who should direct "The Donald Trump Story"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 13, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415 "2021-01-13T06:57:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/1 "2021-01-13T06:57:08Z")
You know it is going to happen, so who do you think would be the best match, director-wise, for the Donald Trump biopic? My own choice would be Uwe Boll. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/2 "2021-01-13T07:01:20Z")
I guess it depends how things turn out in the next couple of weeks. We might need Michael Bay. ---
**Author:** ![BigDfromLA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@BigDfromLA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDfromLA)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/3 "2021-01-13T08:52:28Z")
Oliver Stone He has done some great president movies. JFK, Nixon and W. I would like to see him do a Reagan movie and a Trump film. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/4 "2021-01-13T09:00:21Z")
Brett Ratner. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/5 "2021-01-13T09:20:44Z")
It is such a pity that Russ Meyer is no longer among us. So I will suggest Quentin Tarantino. Or Aki Kaurismäki, to make the story even weirder. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/6 "2021-01-13T09:26:30Z")
Billy Ray. (He did The Comey Rule on Showtime.) I think it’s going to have to be a miniseries rather than a movie. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/7 "2021-01-13T09:39:46Z")
The Coen brothers – comedy genuises. They should write AND direct. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/8 "2021-01-13T09:40:20Z")
David Lynch. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/9 "2021-01-13T10:06:37Z")
I suppose Mel Brooks is out of the game now? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/10 "2021-01-13T14:05:13Z")
Are the Farrelly Brothers (“Dumb and Dumber”) still making movies? ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/11 "2021-01-13T14:08:47Z")
Which director makes the best horror movies? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/12 "2021-01-13T14:14:47Z")
Taika Waititi, and he should play him. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/13 "2021-01-13T14:20:48Z")
Serious answer - it has to be Scorcese, doesn’t it? Who else could do the perfect movie about the rise and fall of a New York gangster? ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/14 "2021-01-13T14:58:48Z")
Looks like David Cronenberg hasn’t done much since 2014 but he’d be the one to make the main character look right. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/15 "2021-01-13T15:32:46Z")
Ed Wood. Even dead. It would just add to the absurdity. If he’s not available 🙂 I vote Alan Smithee. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/16 "2021-01-13T15:40:40Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Taika Waititi, and he should play him. He’s already played one buffoonish yet malevolent and increasingly-irrational dictator who comes to a bad end. Wouldn’t want him to get typecast. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/17 "2021-01-13T15:46:02Z")
Maybe Sasha Cohen could do the subject “justice” ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/18 "2021-01-13T16:42:28Z")
He’s got a long resume of directing jobs, so I am confident he could do justice to this story - **Alan Smithee** ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/19 "2021-01-13T16:48:13Z")
No dramatization can top the absurdity and reality of this horror. My vote goes to noted documentarian Errol Morris. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415/20 "2021-01-13T16:51:14Z")
I was going to say Ed Wood, but got ninja’ed, so my new choice is Tommy Wiseau. “I did not incite insurrection, it’s not true! It’s bullshit! I did not incite insurrection! (throws useless can’t-tweet phone) I did _ **not** _. Oh, hi, Pence.” “YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, NANCY!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-direct-the-donald-trump-story/930415.md?page=2)