You know there will be a TV movie about the Somali pirates -hostage standoff

[VeraAgnes]

so; what's a good title, who will star in iy? Martin Sheen needs to be a player; Scott Bakula as the Navy Commander in the picture with Captain Phillips....who else?

[ColbertWatcher]

1. It depends.

If it's ABC that's going to do it, it has to be cast with a "Disney" sensibility.

If HBO is going to do it, there has to be just enough pretension to say HBO without out right saying HBO.

No way Lifetime is going to do it; not enough chicks. On the other hand, if FOX does it, there will be gratuitous and inexplicable t&a.

Anyone else doing it will make an okay movie--nothing Grande™, but nothing laugh-out-loud embarrassing either.

[VeraAgnes]

2. HBO has a good record

for facts and details...but; mainstream America won't get to see it if only cable carried the movie..that's a problem to be addressed

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Facts and details aside, HBO has a monopoly on pretension. n/t