As much as I love the idea of the Coen brothers doing a send-up of 1950s Hollywood, I'd love to see them tackle the auteur era of the 1970s next - the era when cutting-edge directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorcese, and William Friedkin were given free reign and free budgets to make edgy, socially complex dramas. That era came to a close with the incredible flop of Heaven's Gate (which bankrupted United Artists as a studio), but it created the environment where modern stylists like the Coen brothers could thrive.

Come to think of it, I may just be repeating the plot of The Player here...