Fake History Alert: Hollywood keeps treating the JFK assassination like a board game. The latest fantasy film is November 1963 It opens with the classic “BASED ON A TRUE STORY” card—hard for that to be more misleading. The only thing it gets right is that JFK was killed in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The rest of this trailer is pure mob-conspiracy fan fiction: Chicago Outfit, double-cross, second shooter, everyone out to kill Oswald, the usual stuff. Nicholas Celozzi, mob boss Sam Giancana’s nephew, wrote the screenplay based on what he claims were family stories he heard as a kid. Director Roland Joffé (two-time Oscar nominee) and a cast that probably thinks it’s nonfiction signed on: John Travolta as Johnny Roselli, Trainspotting’s Robert Carlyle as Jack Ruby, Once Upon a Time’s Dermot Mulroney as a Giancana bodyguard/hitman, Yellowstone’s Jefferson White as Lee Harvey Oswald, and Mandy Patinkin as a Chicago mafia boss. The North American distributor is Ketchup Entertainment, an independent distributor best known known for Hellboy: The Crooked Man and the Looney Tunes Coyote vs. Acme. A fantasy JFK fits somewhere in between their superhero horror and cartoons. When Case Closed came out in 1993, David Wolper — the producer of Roots — bought the film rights and thought he had an NBC miniseries. It never happened. In his autobiography, he called it one of only two projects he failed to get on screen that he really wanted. Maybe one day some filmmaker will decide the real story—how Camelot ended in a burst of gunfire from a just-turned 24-year-old lone assassin —is worth telling.