There’s some agreement that Obama’s two terms in the White House haven’t exactly been characterised by a series of jaw-dropping dramas that could create real box office heat.

“They're not legislative achievements that can translate easily into a movie. What can you do with Obamacare? My suspicion is that the future movie of Obama would play very much on what he represents, more than what he actually did,” says Professor Morgan.

Portrait of a president

That’s perhaps why the Obama films in the pipeline are set in his younger years, before he became a policy maker, and touch on his formative experiences. Southside with You, out in the US in August, takes place on a single day in Chicago and dramatises the first date that Barack Obama had with the future First Lady. “I think he was just coming to the realisation that he could do something big in politics or in the world and I think he was just figuring it out. It’s not a very political film to me, it’s truly a love story,” says actor Parker Sawyers who plays the young Barack.