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Films you wanna see based on famous people (living or dead)
Are there any films that haven't been done or films that could be done better to be based on particular famous people?
I would love one about the life of Marilyn monroe. I know there's one coming out at the end of the year but it's only about her time in the UK. I would like one about her entire life.
I would love one based on Dusty Springfield. She had a very interesting closted life. Plus, she's an Soul Icon. A flm has been in development since 2004 but no script has never materalised.
I would love one about the life of Marilyn monroe. I know there's one coming out at the end of the year but it's only about her time in the UK. I would like one about her entire life.
I would love one based on Dusty Springfield. She had a very interesting closted life. Plus, she's an Soul Icon. A flm has been in development since 2004 but no script has never materalised.
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...or James Dean ?
James Franco played James Dean in a biopic, not sure about elvis
We can probably expect a winehouse biopic soon...
I mean a Michael Jackson was promised. Even Anna Nicole Smith one was planned. The Anna nicole one went ahead but it was a cheap barely watched television film with poor acting. She had an interesting life that was fit for the big screen so i hope they do a big screen one for Anna Nicole,
An Elvis one was done but as a mini series. Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) won a golden globe for his portrayal.
That film "Dragon" starring Jason Scott Lee was just rubbish.
A dual biopic film of King George III and George Washington, could be titled 'The Two Georges'.
A biopic of Mohammad, the 7th century religious leader warlord, would make for an interesting film but will never be made for the backlash would be too great.
Charles Dickens
there's a great two-part bio of elvis directed by john carpenter and starring kurt russel.
i'd love to see a film about tim richmond (stock car racer who sadly died of AIDS, and was a major inspiration for days of thunder with tom cruise). there's a great documentary about him called "Tim Richmond: To the Limit" which was produced as part of the "30 for 30" series for ESPN.
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Mark
Maybe Hitchcock.
I would love for that be made!!
Yeah with Nicole Kidman as the lead, I'd pass.
Saddam Hussein
Michael Jackson
Al Pacino
Jacques de Molay
Charlemagne
Alfred The Great
Henry V
General Douglas Haig
Walter Raleigh
Sir Francis Drake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
She isn't the lead. She was considered the lead about 5 years ago but it was never confirmed
Kristin Chenoweth has been linked to the role as of this year.
I've always wanted to see a film about the life of one of my distant relatives - Col Fredrick Spencer Chapman. He was an Explorer and mountaineer during the 1930's - the first man to climb Mt Chomolhari, first man to start an English School in Tibet, Was a member of the British Antarctic Air Expedition. Ended up surviving 3 days in a gale alone while in Greenland.
During the war he was alone living amongst natives undertaking guerilla warfare against the Japanese - they sent an entire division to hunt him down - since he was so busy destroying trucks, trains and the like the Japs thought there was a 200 British troops in the Jungle - in reality there was 4 of them whittled down to 1 eventually - which is why he found himself alone for over 2 years.
He was captured twice; once by Chinese bandits and once by the Japanese - escaping from the latter only because they were surprised he went to University with a Japanese prince.
He ended the war taking the surrender of Japanese forces.
After the war he went caravanning from Cape Town to Uganda with his wife and three small boys in 1953.
As well as the DSO and bar he has been awarded the Arctic Medal (1931), Gill Memorial Medal (Royal Geographical Society, 1941), Mungo Park Medal (Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1948), Sunday Times Special Award and Gold Medal (1949), and the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal (Royal Central Asian Society, 1950).
Only thing is as a teacher some might think it was a rip off Indiana Jones - except he was like Indiana Jones (except a botanist and naturalist rather than archeologist)
see http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/tibet_Frederick_Spencer_Chapman.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223995/The-man-army-How-Cambridge-educated-botanist-fought-year-war-4-000-Japanese-troops.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/21/great-birdwatching-war-hero
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Freddie-Spencer-Chapman/188863660239?v=info
Judy Garland - the tv movie was fantastic but a big screen movie would be much better.
Joan Crawford - a proper one and not a hatchet fest like mommie dearest
Bette Davis - how has this not happened yet?