A lot of good suggestions. I was thinking James Cameron since he has experience with The Titanic.
Ken Burns, and I’m sure he’d skillfully and devastatingly nail him to the (documentary) wall.
So I couldn’t remember where I’d heard that name before (of course! Ragnarok - silly me), but that guy’s upcoming schedule is insane:
- Set to write and direct Thor: Love and Thunder (feature film).
- Set to co-write and direct Next Goal Wins (feature film).
- Set to write, direct, exec produce TWO series for Netflix based on Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.*
- Set to co-write and direct one of the upcoming live-action Star Wars movies (feature film).
- Set to produce and direct two pilots - one for HBO Max and one for Showtime.**
And has an order for a season of a new series, Reservation Dogs. He is co-writer and exec producer.
If we could figure out how to bottle his energy, we could halt almost all carbon emissions overnight!
* One based on the novel and one about the Oompa-Loompas.
** Our Flag Means Death and The Auteur respectively.
Armando Iannucci, the guy who did “The Death of Stalin.”
On topic now, how about Johan Renck who directed Chernobyl on HBO? I do think it would have to be a mini-series, not a single film.
Right idea; wrong guy IMO.
Tommy Wiseau should get that honor distinction (along with writing the screenplay) because the final product would be perfect.
Another vote for Mel Brooks.
Since it’s a movie about a crime family it’s got to be Scorsese or Coppola.
Someone with enough money to be sued.
Agreed. Now that that’s settled, let’s cast it.
Alec Baldwin as The Trump?
I think the guy who played Jabba the Hut as trump.
I think Ken Burns is the best answer. But the most interesting movie would be to let Donald Trump direct himself for a portion of this “greatest ever” movie. Then show the contrast.
Baldwin is very good at contorting his mouth into that distinctive Trumpian “camel’s asshole” look, so I vote for him just for that reason alone! 
He has already been casted for the role of Boris Johnson. I would favour the actor who did the Hulk for tanTrump, older and fatter, so we would get the Trulk.
I think the question of who could play Trump is the more interesting one. I don’t believe any actor, no matter how talented, could really convey the mutilfaceted lunacy of Trump as well as Trump himself does. Any direct portrayal of him would seem either a pale imitation or an unbelievable circus act. I think Trump should be portrayed in an artsy, nontraditional way, maybe by a puppet, or a 5 year old boy, or have him always offscreen, like Archie Bunker’s toilet.*
*turlet
Iannucci only does ‘legitimate’ satire, i.e. In The Cut and VEEP. None of the characters in those productions is as stupidly inept as Trump or Guiliani.
I was thinking this was really in Tina Fey‘s wheelhouse, and she’d be able to recruit several SNL alumni to portray various roles, but the more I thought about it this seems like a good followup for the directors of The Interview, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen.
Stranger
Wes Craven
I think Gary Oldman could pull it off. He can play anything and everyone. All you need is a bird’s nest as a wig, a fat suit and orange make up.