Matt Damon as RFK
Personally, I belong to the school of the condensed-biopic. What I mean by that is movies about real life figures that focus in-depth on a particular moment in time that was either historically fascinating or defined their greatness, instead of the biopics that condense a whole person's life into a two soulless hours. I'm thinking The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Capote, Schlinder's List and Downfall. Condensed storytelling rather than a moment by moment account that attempts to explain the person's every action and decision. How he was always born for greatness, how he found his passion and became a great man, how he met his wife, how many times he washed a day - and all that, we don't need it. I think it was Quentin Tarantino who said on the Charlie Rose show one time; "nobody's life is ever that interesting" and I know exactly what he means. For example, as much as I liked say - The Aviator - how much better of a movie would it have been if it decided to focus on one aspect of Howard Hughes' eccentric life rather than trying to cover the whole thing? That's why I'm a little bummed to report from Deadline that Matt Damon is getting ready to portray the whole tragically unfulfilled life of former New York senator Robert F. Kennedy in a biopic at New Regency.
Steve Knight (Eastern Promises) will adapt Evan Thomas' biopic His Life for above-average storyteller Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) to helm.
Mike Fleming at Deadline says;
The film will trace RFK's transformation from the younger brother in the shadow brother President John F Kennedy to a strong national leader in his own right before he was gunned down in 1968.