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Who are some other historic figures you would like to see get the big epic treatment?


I'd say we are overdue for a serious Custer movie. The 1990 miniseries "Son of the Morning Star" was phenomenal, but a huge movie would be way better.

A more obscure figure who's life would definitely merit a movie was Alexander William Doniphan, who led a ragtag army of Missourian volunteers to Mexico in the Mexican-American War. His force consisted of a couple of hundred poorly-equipped backwoodsmen who defeated several huge Mexican armies AND the Navajo tribe with minimal casualties, and engaged in the longest military march since the Anabasis of the Ancient Greek era. I find it honestly surprising that Hollywood never tackled this story back in the '50s or '60s.

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Meriwether Lewis

Captain Sir John Ross

King George V(father of the man whose life was the subject of The King's Speech)

Eugene Cernan

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Red Cloud.
Columbus.
Hernan Cortez.
Custer. (His life is way more interesting than just the Little Big Horn.)
Crazy Horse (or do Crazy Horse and Custer together, as in the David McCullough book where he showed how amazingly similar they were.)

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I'd like to see Albert Einstein (no not the Brook one) being given such treatment. He deserves it. He ought to have won another Nobel Prize.

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The Wright Brothers. I read the book by David McCullough (who also wrote John Adams), and their story is fascinating, with far more to it than flying a rickety plane for a hundred yards on the beach.

And Ferdinand Magellan. It was a huge missed opportunity not to have an epic biopic about the voyage for the 500th anniversary. Truly the greatest adventure in human history. Laurence Bergreen wrote a great book, from the original accounts, called "Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe".

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Biopics suck donkey

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