After reading the article, I was thinking to myself "Nobody has had the bad taste to make a feature movie about the Manson slayings"? Tsk, tsk. Call Van Bebber nobody in that case. Great to see some love (& acknowledgment) for his film here.
I'm definitely not opposed to seeing Stone take the book on, it's right up his alley & I can imagine it being a nice blend of Helter Skelter & The Manson Family. Think of the trial aspects from JFK, add the hallucinatory psychosis from NBK, stir in extra blood, and boom. Cinema Joy right there :)