Who should play Robert Moses in HBO film?

Master builder Robert Moses -- who changed all our lives, for better or ill -- died in 1981 at the age of 92.

So maybe it's finally time for the biopic, right? In fact, HBO is developing one in tandem with Oliver Stone that's based on Robert Caro's 1974 classic, "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York," according to the Hollywood Reporter. (HBO declined to comment, and Caro did not return a call to his office seeking comment.)

But who to play Moses? The choice must project power (of course), a certain degree of inflexibility and ill humor (he did famously say, "those who can, build; those who can't criticize"), and maybe even the soul of a dreamer.

Some of the possibilities my editors and I cooked up:

Frank Langella: My personal favorite, he made Richard Nixon even more Nixonian in "Frost/Nixon."

John Malkovich: Perfect blend of martini-dry humor, freaky/scary eyes, and soaring forehead. He could out-Moses Moses.

David Strathairn: Love the voice, love the actor -- but does he do mean?

Philip Seymour Hoffman: Great actor who can do it all. (But a tall, patrician-like figure with deeply receding hairline? That's what makeup artists are for.)

Sam Waterston: Right blend of steely temperament and let-them-eat-cake hauteur.

Stanley Tucci: The Stanley Tucci from "Road to Perdition" or "Winchell"; probably not the one from "Burlesque" or "Easy A."