If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
Decisions made in real time are never perfect.
When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.