9. Laurence Fishburne As Elvis Mitchell
After graduating from college, Elvis Mitchell started working for The Detroit Free Press before his mortarboard fell to the ground, and from there progressed to gigs at LA Weekly and The New York Times. After retiring from reviews, he began curating an independent section of film at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2011. As a staunch Quentin Tarantino supporter, he was chosen to host the critic's panel special feature on the essential Tarantino XX box-set. For being one of the most revered film critics in the 80s and 90s, a stringent supporter for independent films, a loyalist of one of modern culture's most popular directors and an African-American succeeding in a field populated by white males, Mitchell deserves to have his story told on film. And Laurence Fishburne would be the perfect man to play him. Fishburne has a certain kind of sophistication and a commanding calm in his mannerism that would make a great Elvis Mitchell. Watch any of Mitchell's youtube videos and you won't see the kind of intensity that someone like Samuel L. Jackson can't help but always bring to his roles. Fishburne's instantly recognisable for being the badass Morpheus in the Matrix movies but even when he's kicking ass and swinging swords, he exudes a scholarly demeanour that would fit the role of the curator and film critic like a glove. His more mellow mentor-type roles on TV's CSI and Man Of Steel make it even easier to see why he'd be the man for the job.