Now that American Fiction is a Best Picture-nominated hit, can Hollywood adapt another Percival Everett novel that’s even more explicitly set in the world of the movies?

Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier is about a man named Not Sidney Poitier. Yes, his first name is Not Sidney, and his last name is Poitier (welcome to Everett’s brain). And though this Not Sidney Poitier happens to look exactly like the famous Sidney Poitier, they’re not even distantly related.

And yet, as the story relays the events of his life, every chapter bears a striking resemblance to a different Sidney Poitier film.

Imagine how much fun a big-screen adaptation could have in recreating the specific styles of all these Poitier pictures; much like various stretches of the book, one sequence would take after The Defiant Ones, while the next would be modeled after Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and then there’d be an In the Heat of the Night section, and so on and so forth.

A recent example of this concept: The Great Escape clips in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.