If you were Harvey Weinstein, which documentary about yourself would you choose: an unauthorized take from a filmmaker who already tackle another Hollywood icon in a previous film, or an authorized take from Quentin Tarantino, whose career exists entirely because of Weinstein's support? I think you know where this is headed. The New York Times is reporting today about filmmaker Barry Avrich's attempts to film Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, and in documenting all of Weinstein's objections to the film, they mention that Weinstein claims Tarantino is considering a similar project, about the founding of Miramax and its success with a little movie called Pulp Fiction.

Who knows if that's just a gambit to get Avrich to drop the idea or if Tarantino actually wants to do it, though given Tarantino's tendency to talk up projects that he knows will never be made, it could be a little bit of both. As interesting as it would be to see a Tarantino-directed Weinstein biopic, with all the access he could get and front-row insights he'd have, Avrich's version would probably be a lot juicier. He describes the film as "a powerful, uncensored account of a brilliant, feared, charming and yet loathsome character," and promises he's not aiming to make a "hatchet job." While the odds are he would never get Weinstein to participate in the film, what he could dig up would probably be worth watching. I say make both of them, and may the best film win.