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Post by hi224 on May 2, 2019 21:07:49 GMT
there was supposed to be one on HBO starring Carell and Gandolfini before he passed actually. Hmm, I didn't know about that. I'll be looking for more info. I hope they haven't given up on the idea. I think it would make a great story because some of the men's actions against each other (such as destroying fossils) would be unthinkable today.
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Post by Sulla on May 2, 2019 21:11:20 GMT
Hmm, I didn't know about that. I'll be looking for more info. I hope they haven't given up on the idea. I think it would make a great story because some of the men's actions against each other (such as destroying fossils) would be unthinkable today.
Yeah like who would you cast to replace Gandolfini? Winstone possibly? Goodman? I don't know. I'd have to think about it a long time. Maybe Paul Giamatti? He sort of looks like Marsh.
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Post by hi224 on May 2, 2019 23:56:18 GMT
Yeah like who would you cast to replace Gandolfini? Winstone possibly? Goodman? I don't know. I'd have to think about it a long time. Maybe Paul Giamatti? He sort of looks like Marsh. whoops my bad was actually a paleontology comedy as well, well thats disappointing ugh, actually was hoping that was possible.
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Post by Sulla on May 3, 2019 1:02:44 GMT
I don't know. I'd have to think about it a long time. Maybe Paul Giamatti? He sort of looks like Marsh. whoops my bad was actually a paleontology comedy as well, well thats disappointing ugh, actually was hoping that was possible. Aww, dammit. 
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Post by hi224 on May 3, 2019 19:16:48 GMT
H. H. Holmes
Aaron Burr
Mary Grace Quakenbos
I’m fairly amazed that I hadn’t even heard of Mary Grace Quackenbos—wow, what a story. Incredible that no one has made a movie or miniseries about her. Or about Burr, especially in light of the Hamilton craze. Just call it Aaron Burr, like that John Adams miniseries… Hey, start it right after the duel, make it about the out-west conspiracy. Even throw in some elements from Gore Vidal’s Burr. I think it would be grand. As for Holmes, I think I remember hearing that Scorsese and DiCaprio are doing a movie from Devil in the White City. Maybe I'll create an Aaron Burr |
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Post by Salzmank on Jun 25, 2021 20:29:05 GMT
Because I’m weird, I’ve been reading Fawn M. Brodie’s biography of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Jr., and—wow—now that’d make a great movie. Brodie’s argument—and I think I agree—is basically that Smith was a conman who started believing his own con. Fascinating stuff, with a captivating central character. Of course a movie adaptation would cause tons of controversy and have Mormons protesting in front of theaters, so a studio might not go for it, but what a movie that could be.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jun 25, 2021 20:48:04 GMT
Frederick Douglass
Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Post by lordarvidthexiii on Jul 15, 2021 8:19:06 GMT
Mad Jack Churchill, who has been mentioned by another poster, WW2 commando for the Brits who often fought with a sword and bow en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_ChurchillEugene Vidoc (sp), father of Modern policing, father of French police, was a crook from 14 to 35, then became a prison snitch for a few years, and then became super cop who started plain cloths cops, used women. Both main characters in Les Miserable are based off him. King Phillip II, father of Alexander the Great. Cypress the Great, King of Persia. Lepidius(sp), Roman general, Julius Cesear's best friend, likely friends since childhood, likely deserves half the credit for conquest of Gaul, and when Cesear crossed the Rubicon, chose the Senate over Ceasar. Of all the generals who faced Cesear, he came closest to killing in what be Cesear's last battle. |
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Post by hi224 on Jul 15, 2021 8:45:37 GMT
Mad Jack Churchill, who has been mentioned by another poster, WW2 commando for the Brits who often fought with a sword and bow en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_ChurchillEugene Vidoc (sp), father of Modern policing, father of French police, was a crook from 14 to 35, then became a prison snitch for a few years, and then became super cop who started plain cloths cops, used women. Both main characters in Les Miserable are based off him. King Phillip II, father of Alexander the Great. Cypress the Great, King of Persia. Lepidius(sp), Roman general, Julius Cesear's best friend, likely friends since childhood, likely deserves half the credit for conquest of Gaul, and when Cesear crossed the Rubicon, chose the Senate over Ceasar. Of all the generals who faced Cesear, he came closest to killing in what be Cesear's last battle. Eugene Vidoc (sp), father of Modern policing, father of French police, was a crook from 14 to 35, then became a prison snitch for a few years, and then became super cop who started plain cloths cops, used women. Both main characters in Les Miserable are based off him. King Phillip II, father of Alexander the Great. Cypress the Great, King of Persia. yass.
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Post by lordarvidthexiii on Jul 15, 2021 16:49:28 GMT
Late addition
Carcrackitious (sp, very sp). Lead a series of guerilla wars against Roman in Britannia, escaping capture at least twice before being betray, sent to Roman where he spoke to the Senate and persuaded them to spare him, and died as a Roman.
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Post by theauxphou on Jul 16, 2021 23:05:55 GMT
Rasputin, Tamerlane, explorers Zheng He, Sir Walter Raleigh (who’s actually a distant relative of mine), Rabban Sauma, Ibn Battuta
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Post by Morgana on Jul 20, 2021 10:33:13 GMT
Mad Jack Churchill, who has been mentioned by another poster, WW2 commando for the Brits who often fought with a sword and bow en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_ChurchillEugene Vidoc (sp), father of Modern policing, father of French police, was a crook from 14 to 35, then became a prison snitch for a few years, and then became super cop who started plain cloths cops, used women. Both main characters in Les Miserable are based off him. King Phillip II, father of Alexander the Great. Cypress the Great, King of Persia. Lepidius(sp), Roman general, Julius Cesear's best friend, likely friends since childhood, likely deserves half the credit for conquest of Gaul, and when Cesear crossed the Rubicon, chose the Senate over Ceasar. Of all the generals who faced Cesear, he came closest to killing in what be Cesear's last battle. I second Mad Jack Churchill, Cyrus the Great (nice typo, by the way  ) and Philip of Macedon.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 20, 2021 16:05:20 GMT
Eugene Vidoc (sp), father of Modern policing, father of French police, was a crook from 14 to 35, then became a prison snitch for a few years, and then became super cop who started plain cloths cops, used women. Both main characters in Les Miserable are based off him.
There is a French movie about Vidocq. I haven't seen it, so I don't know how faithful it is to actual events.
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Post by lordarvidthexiii on Jul 20, 2021 16:08:02 GMT
Eugene Vidoc (sp), father of Modern policing, father of French police, was a crook from 14 to 35, then became a prison snitch for a few years, and then became super cop who started plain cloths cops, used women. Both main characters in Les Miserable are based off him.
There is a French movie about Vidocq. I haven't seen it, so I don't know how faithful it is to actual events.
If I remember correctly, the killer is literally magical.
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Post by JHA Durant on Aug 2, 2021 6:19:15 GMT
Ludwig Leichhardt immediately springs to my mind.
German explorer who came to Australia determined to cross the continent, became the first European to cross the northern portion of the continent, and who disappeared without trace attempting to cross Australia from east to west on his second expedition. There was a recent book written about his life, and many theories about what became of his expedition are explored, and a mini-series based off this book would be phenomenal.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 2, 2021 9:03:05 GMT
Gavrilo Princep. Little of real history to work with I know. The man change the world in four seconds, maybe the most crucial four seconds in all of human history, just enough time to pull a trigger on a cheap pistol twice.
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Post by Winter_King on Aug 5, 2021 8:52:50 GMT
Eugene Vidoc (sp), father of Modern policing, father of French police, was a crook from 14 to 35, then became a prison snitch for a few years, and then became super cop who started plain cloths cops, used women. Both main characters in Les Miserable are based off him.
There is a French movie about Vidocq. I haven't seen it, so I don't know how faithful it is to actual events.
I've seen it but that movie is more historical fantasy (in the literal sense of the word) than historical drama.
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Post by Winter_King on Aug 5, 2021 8:54:34 GMT
Gavrilo Princep. Little of real history to work with I know. The man change the world in four seconds, maybe the most crucial four seconds in all of human history, just enough time to pull a trigger on a cheap pistol twice. Ah yes, he's the reason why we have Hentai: 
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Post by Winter_King on Aug 5, 2021 8:56:12 GMT
I wished someone would make a mini series or maybe a tv series about Hannibal and Scipio.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 5, 2021 19:54:00 GMT
Gavrilo Princep. Little of real history to work with I know. The man change the world in four seconds, maybe the most crucial four seconds in all of human history, just enough time to pull a trigger on a cheap pistol twice. Ah yes, he's the reason why we have Hentai: All because FF's driver took a wrong turn and the car didn't have reverse. Put the Archduke right into Princip's sights. From what I've read Franz Ferdinand was kind of an ass, but he was doing the right thing, going to see the soldiers who were wounded when they threw a bomb at his car. Would be interesting to put Princip into a time machine and take him to 1945 and scream "Look what you done!"
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) and Philip of Macedon.
