It sounds like Adam McKay might be keeping his The Big Short team together for his next politically infused project, with Variety reporting that Christian Bale and Steve Carell are both in talks to star in McKay’s still untitled biopic of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Bale would play the Wyoming face-shooter himself, forcing us to wonder what sorts of method-acting techniques—Face-scrunching? Laser-assisted soul blackening?—he might employ to get into the character.