Inventing Anna, The Dropout, WeCrashed and Super Pumped should've waited 20 years to dramatize their real-life stories

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"These stories are just too fresh!" says Sarah Hagi. "As much as I would love to see Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Lawrence and Jared Leto and Nicolas Braun (ok, maybe not so much these last two) hamming it up with crazy accents and overwritten speeches while telling juicy stories I feel I know intimately, their subjects have barely aged since becoming public figures. Which is why I am proposing a simple rule moving forward: We must let at least twenty years pass before immortalizing crime-related stories on screen. The appeal of revisiting stories like the O.J. trial or the Bill Clinton impeachment with fresh eyes is having a chance to re-evaluate our memories and biases, and truly consider the legacies of figures of recent history years after the dust has settled. We can’t really do this with stories that only just happened, or, in some of these cases, trials that are still ongoing. What are we truly learning by having actors play dress-up and act out scenes we just read about in the New York Times six months ago? What exactly is the goal beyond buzzy film actors getting Emmy nominations for doing glorified SNL impressions?"