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Alan Turing. British genius, creator of many of the theories and principes modern computers are based on. Was of vital help to england in ww2 by helping build computers to break Nazi codes,  created some of the earlier analog programmable computational devices. His contribution to the British war effort was incanucable.

His reward was to be hounded by the British government over his sexuality,  offered a choice between chemical castration or prison,  driven to suicide in a covert way so his family could collect his insruance.

.Bela Lugosi.  :lookingup:

.Tesla. This man got so f**ked and buried by history. Perhaps the greatest inventor of the 20th Century.

Christopher Lee. Now there was a man who packed a lot into his life.

Lemmy. Willing to bet a warts (hah!) and all movie would blow anything in 'The Dirt', 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Rocket Man' away lol.

I'll go see either of those!

Not one I've seen but you might want to check out The Imitation Game.

Thanks Alex, I never heard of that one.

Not one I've seen but you might want to check out The Imitation Game.
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That is a very good film indeed.

I would like to see a good biopic of a famous South African: the films made about Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko were not good and truthful as they should have been.

I'm not very much into biographies that only tell the story of a person, instead of a particular event that just happens to serve as a mean to describe the character. Having said that...


...this fella right there would be my first choice. And I would ask Luca Turilli and Fabio Lione, the former members of Rhapsody, to make the soundtrack.

On the other hand, after watching the horrible TOLKIEN movie, I'd say I would like a good biography about that great writer and professor. A movie that tells more about his work, not a s**tty remake of DEAD POETS SOCIETY.

On a slightly related note, Alan Turing has just been revealed as the face on the new £50 bank note.

Gunther von Pluschow, World War I aviator and the only German POW in either World War to escape from a prison camp in the UK.
His life was a very cool odyssey!

piers anthony, and a DECENT film about l.frank baum.

I may be wrong but I think I heard about a German pow in ww2 who escaped,  stayed either in England or some other non German country to avoid being shipped to Russia as slave labor and lived his life married to some woman who's story came up recently. He was ww2  so not the guy you talked about.

https://gizmodo.com/computer-science-legend-alan-turing-to-appear-on-new-5-1836371758

If they put   pic of a gay person on a bill in america hate groups would explode, places would refuse to accept them, politicians would camPaign on a promise to ban them, etc. I wonder how this will do In england.

On the theme of WW2, there were some Soviet POW's who escaped captivity and ended up as partisans in Italy. They knew that since they had been captured alive, should they ever return to the USSR that they'd be shot. As part of the agreements between the allies the UK had already agreed to return all Soviet POW's they liberated. The SAS were sent into Italy to work with the resistance and when the war ended they were ordered to put their comrades on a train to Moscow. Having spent some time fighting with these guys they decided on a liberal interpretation of their orders and rather than marching them at gunpoint to the train station invited the soldiers to go on a train ride home. The Soviets (many of whom had married local women) took the hint and disappeared and to the best of my knowledge lived out the rest of their lives in some of the remoter parts of northern Italy.

Anyway, I think that would make an interesting movie.

As for Turing on the £50 I haven't heard any protests about it. It is generally accepted that the government (and society in general) made a major mistake there. I have no doubt there would be some people who would be unhappy about it (although I doubt many of them will even know who Turing was never mind what he did).

Visited Bletchley Park once where they did all the code-breaking.

OK my bad, what I remembered happened in america.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Gärtner

BTW, maybe it's time for a movie about the way German soldiers were  treated after ww2 especially in Russia. The Russian mass murder of German soldiers who surrendered in stalingrad, the murder of more who we're sent to Russia as basically slave labor by the allies,  etc.

With Vladimir Putin running Russia now maybe a movie reminding us how bad Russia could be  is one that needs made. As to russia threatening a boycott of it, so what?  Hollywood has a larger economy that Russia does now.

John Belushi - WIRED is a terrible, almost unwatchable movie. It gave me a headache. Physically. A headache.

Captain Kidd or Blackbeard - I'd love to see a really gritty, well-made movie about piracy.

Not having seen most of these, I can't say how gritty or well-made they are, but according to wikipedia.org there are a half dozen films and almost a dozen TV episodes that feature Blackbeard. Captain Kidd is less well represented on film, there he has appeared in 4 films and 1 TV miniseries. Maybe it is time to do a reboot featuring one or both characterrs.

Richard Pryor. I know Jo Jo Dancer technically is this, but I’d love a more modern take with a different person portraying him.

Emperor Joshua Norton I; He was America only officially recognized Royalty (Elvis was just a celebrity) 

Quite the fascinating character. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton)

Julie D'Aubigny La Maupin
https://www.badassoftheweek.com/maupin?rq=Julie (https://www.badassoftheweek.com/maupin?rq=Julie)   
She did fencing duels live on stage all to the death...and won every single challenge!

Juanita Musson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Musson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Musson)

Every single time I try to tell friends about this woman and her restaurant, they think I made it all up.. but my parents took me to her restaurants a few times. She was very real.  Honestly, I'm shocked no one has made a movie about her yet.

Andy Milligan
His life was angry and intense as his movies.
I have written a 150 page script based on Jimmy McDonough's biography of him.   Still trying to get someone with $$$$ to read it and flim it.

The snag with a Christopher Lee movie is you would have to find someone who looked and sounded close to him as possible otherwise it would not work at all.

That's remarkable. I was going to suggest Emperor Norton (though I think crafting a straightforward biopic-style narrative about him would be quite a challenge).


This would be another great one, and much easier to construct a narrative from. (Your script won't fly unless you got McDonough on board, though).

He applauded my effort when I told him I wrote a script based on his book.   He said for legal reasons, he is not allowed to read it. I acutally know of those reasons sadly.   But he  applauded the effort, if it makes it through to being filmed, he will be thrilled to read it.


PS, I'm honeslty shocked no one has made a movie about Norton yet!   However, Neil Gaiman wrote a single issue of a Sandman Comic way back in 1990 about him.  It's a brilliant take on the good Emperor. 

PPS, i disagree, a straightforward story of his life would be fairly easy, It would need Neil Gaiamns touch though.

Joshua Norton movie proposal:

Act 1

Norton is a successful business man, who makes a bad investment. He tries to recover his losses in the courts, but fails, &, believing the country's corrupt, declares himself the First Emperor of the United States.

Act 2

Norton sends declarations to local news papers, which gives him some notoriety. He begins to show up at rallies, & this annoys some political figures & business men.

Act 3

The political figures & business men have Norton committed, but his antics have made him a lot of friends. They get him out, & buy him a new suit, fitting for the Emperor of the United States.

Krystal Cole, the woman in this short documentary:

http://youtu.be/r7qliVpGEk0 (http://youtu.be/r7qliVpGEk0)

Her version of the end of the story may not be entirely true. Warning: this is very disturbing.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ok-court-of-criminal-appeals/1251267.html (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ok-court-of-criminal-appeals/1251267.html)

Soapy Smith, Alaska’s first crime lord. I know of at least one documentary about the guy and a portrayal by Rod Steiger, Klondike Fever (1980). He was a kingpin in Skagway during the late 19th Century, running gambling operations and scams out of saloons during the old Klondike days. I think that the character Swearengen in Deadwood (2004) might have been inspired by Soapy Smith. The history about this guy is fascinating and is just begging for a proper Western or even a biopic.

Swearengen was a real guy and legitimately a career criminal who ran a brothel/bar in Deadwood and quarreled with Bullock, but considering how little we know about the real Swearengen, I wouldn't be surprised if they used details from Soapy's career and operations to fill in the gaps.  Similar stories (19th century criminal on the outskirts of the current American frontier), and there's more surviving details about Soapy, so it'd make sense.  Totally agree, Soapy deserves a film.

Another con man and gambler from a bit later, I'd like to see a film on Titanic Thompson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_Thompson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_Thompson)

Famous con man/gambler/pool player/golfer.

He was extremely agile and skilled with his hands, great at jumping and throwing cards and other tricks - he'd use that skill to win lots of money in bar bets.  He testified at the trial for the murder of crime boss Arthur Rothstein, who some of you probably remember from Boardwalk Empire and films about the mob in the 1920s.  He was also a great golfer and played for decades, often hustling people with a partner.  Also a hustler at pool, and worked with Minnesota Fats.  Was in three separate shootouts, killing another 4 people, as he was a great shot.  Very good poker player too.  Lived to be over 80, and played in the very first World Series of Poker, a living legend at the time.

There's a biography on him I read years ago, Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything, totally worth a read if you like the sound of this stuff.