A movie where Malcolm X starts lecturing people about how important voting is seems like the next step.
A film where Nelson Mandela teams up with American commandos to stop the evil Cubans from continuing apartheid in South Africa. At the end, Mandela formally denounces Che, Castro, and communism, and endorses Barrack Obama for president of the United States, despite this still being the 90s.
EDIT: This actually doesn't work because I forgot he only makes boring-ass walk 'n' talk dramas. So, a drama to humanize McCarthy and McCarthyism directly, but with a narrative of some eternal struggle between Russians and USians.
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are anti-war at the beginning but get won over by Friedrich Ebert's eloquent speech about German patriotism. The Freikorps are depicted as radical Communists and also Nazis because horseshoe theory.
A biopic about Julia Child that examines her state department husband’s suspected support of soviet spy Jane Foster. Their marriage and patriotism struggle but they ultimately find proof of their innocence and Jane’s guilt through a series of increasingly tense debates in hallways. A plot to bait Americans into a first strike blunder by faking a Soviet ICBM launch is revealed by Jane Foster and the U.S. remains resolute instead of initiating a nuclear Holocaust which restores Child’s faith in the system and the mission of the state department to keep the world safe.
The Haymarket Affair. It can be part of his Liberalization of the Leftist History of Chicago trilogy, along with the Trial of the Chicago 7 he already shit on the history of.
The last in the trilogy will be Blues Brothers 3000, unless anyone has any better ideas.
I don't think Sorkin would be allowed to make a film about MLK or Malcolm X. I hope not, anyway.
If you've never seen the sequel to Blues Brothers, it is very bad. Although it managed to show even more Chicago cops crash their cars than the original.
I mostly can't think of another Chicago-based moment in labor history. It looks like there are plenty, though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_Chicago
There was also the Pullman Strike, which started in Chicago and ended with Eugene Debs getting arrested.
And the 1968 Democratic Convention was there, the trial afterwards was covered by a recent Sorkin film.
The Haymarket Affair/Riot was the instigation for labor movements around the world to have May 1st, May day, to be commemorated for worker solidarity. They were demonstrating for an 8 hour work day.
In America, though, there is some non-holiday called Patriots Day due to anticommunism :deeper-sadness:
It's where also CPUSA got its start. Of course those early years were spent doing what leftists do best - factional bickering. Not that the later years have been better
A movie about two Hollywood writers who do a radio show talking about episodes of a TV series that was started by another, bigger Hollywood writer named Baron Torkin.
I don't know but whatever it is - the trailer opens with Obama speech quotes.
A meeting between Sinema, Manchin and other Democrats. Both sides will give long drawn out monologue and meanwhile, the Squad and Bernie will be trying to crash the meeting because they weren't invited. Pelosi will end the movie with an epic line about how the country needs to be more bipartisan and call for a strong Republican party. (This assumes that the socdems don't actually nod along during the actual meetings)
I think you mean the Kerensky government
Edit: or the tsar sees the error of his ways and becomes a benevolent tyrant
