10 Movie Biopics That Desperately Need To Happen

Fantasy Casting: Johnny Depp

We all know Doctor Seuss from The Cat In The Hat and The Grinch, but there’s actually a lot more to the man than that. Just as the upcoming Tolkien film focuses more on the war and how it inspired him to write his seminal fantasy novels, a Doctor Seuss movie may find more fertile ground before he began his masterpieces.

Set to become an English teacher, his wife instead convinced him to become an artist. With notebooks bursting with ideas, he was bound to find a career that way. Moderate success arrived, but so too did World War II, and Seuss’ fate changed.

Too old to fight, Seuss became one of the generations most prominent political cartoonists. Seuss was (controversially, at the time) pro-Jewish and pro-Black, though he later apologised for racist depictions of Asians. His critiques of Hitler and fascism has a timeless quality; he even wrote an Oscar-winning documentary about the war in 1947.

Perhaps most importantly for the modern era, Seuss wrote a searing damnation of the controversial ‘America First’ policy; some 70 years before Trump.

Depp was in talks for a Seuss movie which fell through in 2012, but he’s still a safe bet now.