ITT: Historical figures who need a biopic.

Julian the Apostate

>>898010
Marius, Sulla, Lucullus, Catilina, Cicero, Pompey, Caesar all rolled into one. From 110 BC to 44 BC. Or maybe to 27 BC even.

William the Conqueror.

Robert Guiscard.

Otto the Great, Barbarossa, Frederick II (fuck the Pope).

Heraclius, Majorian, Maurice, Belisarius (hero doesn't win endings are all too rare).

>>898010
Hannibal. A Punic wars film trilogy would be great.

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The fact that there's still no real Napoleon biopic is fucking shocking.

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>>898010

Justinian II biopic > Justinian I biopic

>>898392
anglos are still butthurt over him

it's bizarre

>>898398
An absolute madman, a movie would be brilliant.

>>898392
Literally the most boring figure from the most boring time in history.

>>898376
>Marius, Sulla, Lucullus, Catilina, Cicero, Pompey, Caesar all rolled into one. From 110 BC to 44 BC. Or maybe to 27 BC even.
basically a reboot of HBO's Rome on a grander scale. I would totally watch this, though i'd eliminate the whole perspective that vorenus and pullo embodied

>>898427
>the most boring time in history.

>being this wrong

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>>898010
He is the most deserving and you know it.

Is that an ancient Frida Kahlo?

>>898494
>Implies Darius and his commando assassination of the Magus Smerdis wouldn't be better

>>898427
Whatever you say, Nigel

Buenaventura Durruti.

>>898500
You'd rather watch a biopic that'll confuse normies into thinking his successor was battling evil wizards to save the Persian Empire?

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>>898010
Napoleon I
Lasalle
Jean-Roch Coignet
William the Conqueror
Nicolas Chauvin
Pierre Cambronne
Friedrich the Great
Davout
Ney

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Brunhilda vs Fredegund

>>898385
I've got good news and I've got bad news.

The good news is I've heard something like that is being done.

The bad news is its a Vin Diesel project.

Olga of Kiev
Xenophon
Bod Dénard

>>898685
there was a project of an animation series about this. It was dropped due to lack of interest from the plebe.

>>898053
Garbage ruler who's reign ended exactly as it should have :^)

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>Burn down convent
>have sex with a nun

>>898692
>The bad news is its a Vin Diesel project.
Idk m8, he has a hit or miss career. But a history based film will likely be a huuuuge miss.

>>899055
>go to a ball
>pick up the hottest chick in front of everyone
>get challenged to a duel
>sing some shit about the challenger
>beat his punk ass
>bring him home and fuck him silly

BASED
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>>898474
Agreed. It worked in Rome because the whole timeline was simplified and shortened, everybody was supposed to age about twenty years and didn't. In this the timeline would be as it was, how else would Caesar go from being the shadow of an idea, when his mother's 10 years old or so, to 17 years in the grave? The characters, politics, and social and military changes would be enough to confuse most normies anyway, without including the average person's perspective.

>>898490
>>898504
>nappy takes over the mess that is France
>takes over a lot of Europe
>five coalitions form against him, he beats all of them
>invades Russia, his ass is kicked
>sixth coalition beats him because he can't recover from being a retard
>beaten, exiled, comes back and reigns a hundred days before being beaten again

It reads like a freaking Digimon enemy arc, six wars fought with him finally beaten on the last, then coming back "bigger and badder" for a short period of time. I'll never understand Nappyboos. And fugg of m8, I ain't no Britbrat.

>>899751
It is also an arc of a young talented man who rises from the gutter to become the most powerful man in the world. He starts off hating France, then becomes a radical revolutionary, then power corrupts him and he becomes what he originally hated. His affair with Josephine and other women are also quite interesting. There are a lot of action and it is a story of rise and fall.

With the right director and writer, this can be great.

>>899053
>Garbage ruler who's reign ended exactly as it should have :^)

Not OP but, Ammianus Marcellinus AKA the greatest Roman historian post-Tacitus disagrees with you. He tore the Franks and Alemanni a new one.

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Hell id be happy just for a movie about the siege of Malta

Jean Parisot de Valette.

Mostly focusing on his fight in the Siege of Rhodes (when a young lad, a siege where they fought bravely but lost) and on the Siege of Malta (where they won).

>>899950
>>899955
Damn, at the same time.

>>898392
Should open with a shot of the guillotine, then transition to the judgement of the king.

>>898474
>you will never see Marius V Sulla produced by HBO

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>>899968
mfw it happens

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From the freedwoman mother on the shit farm to reconquering the empire

>>900006
>diocletian gets all the credit
Son of a fucking bitch.

>>900026
Aurelian's ultimate flaw was what he accomplished scared the living shit out of people.

>>899053
T. Christcuck

>>898392
It would trigger all the frenchies

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>>898010
The JUSTinian movie better have a steamy Theodora sex scene

>>900224
A Justinian movie made today would have more scenes of Theodora and Antonina cucking their husbands than anything else put together.

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If someone were to start a pension for the creation of a historical biopic. Who would it be about, and would you sign it?

>>899046
>Xenophon
No.
>Anabasis
Yes.

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>>900260
>cucking
Maybe Orthodox women cheat on their husbands, but good pious Monophysite women like Theodora don't

>>898053
Read Gore Vidal's book

>>898010
One where he isn't played by a scrawny celt, and the biopic isn't trying to do the whole vikings/GOT shit.

>>900347
>a beautiful extremely politically active former whore whose best friend is a renowned cheating whore
>never cucked her husband
I wouldn't even be surprised if Justinian himself pimped her out when needed desu.

>>900416
Procopius would be so proud that his lies made it this far

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>>898392
>tfw kubrick planned to do a 3 hour Napoleon epic but the jews killed him

>>900422
Eh, insatiable lust aside, the other scabrous details of her and Antonina's life were confirmed by other authors too.

>>900451
I'm not saying she was perfect, or even that she wasn't a hooker when she was younger. But there's no reason to believe was anywhere near what Procopius claimed.

>>900467
>But there's no reason to believe was anywhere near what Procopius claimed.
Yeah well, she could easily be a whore and still not be anywhere near what Procopius claimed, desu. I'm not saying she had a cock in every hole every waking moment, or that she left her body to move around in demon form while asleep, I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised to know she had extramarital affairs or that Justinian pimped her out. It's not like these were such unbelievable acts you know.

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every thread

>>900422
>Procopius
>wrong

Hi Theodora. Don't you have some cocks to choke on?

>>899963
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

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Would be pretty interesting. Or at least the formation of Germany.

>>900362
>Read Gore Vidal's book

I have. Several times. It's one of the main reasons I want a biopic

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Greatest porno of all time

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A documentary series about the entire history of Arab Nationalism from 1918-2000's would be great.

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This guy

>>898511
You wouldn't?

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>there will never be a film of Charlemagne with Christopher Lee as the lead

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>>903890
>He will never spill the blood of Saxon men again

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Literally a son of a samurai. Veteran of the greatest battle of Russo Japanese war, Tsushima. Traveled America extensively. Attended Harvard. Learned to speak perfect English. Rose to the rank of Admiral. Proved himself to be a military genius. Staunch opponent of allying with the Axis powers and imperialist aggression but served his government's lost cause out of loyalty. Then in the end he's violently assassinated when his transport plane is ambushed by a squadron of P-38G Lightnings.

He's like a Japanese Robert E. Lee. It would make a wonderful movie.

>>898010
Catherine the great

Enrico Dandolo

>>905757
There's a pretty recent Japanese movie called "Admiral Yamamoto", it's good enough that I've watched it twice.

>>899751
yeah, I'd prefer it to be more like game of thrones with a focus on high politics, with the rabble depicted as something volatile, fickle and something less than human.

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probably already exists, but I nominate this dynamic duo

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The fact that the Kubrick movie didn't happen fucking destroys me

>>900709
I love Bismarck but this would be the most boring film ever.

>>898010
Justinian i okay now?

It's been long enough since Extra History to talk about him again?

>>898474
>though i'd eliminate the whole perspective that vorenus and pullo embodied
That was the whole point of the Rome series though, to show the roman history from the point of view of the common folk, instead of just the great figures.

>>906266
The script for it make me even saltier that it didn't happen

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Alexios Komnenos

>>906715
See: The last temptation of Jesuschrist, or The passion of the Christ, or one of the other hundreds of biopics of Jesuschirist.

>>902925
Best wife ever.
Super sex + super advisor!

>>899864
And he was wrong

>>900467
Except that everything he said was correct

>>906294
It didn't do a good job of it then. The Vorenus subplot with his wife was a shit. Pullo was ok in the first season but uninspiring in the second. Nothing much was learned from their perspective, except maybe some snippets of daily life which could well have been inserted elsewhere.

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>>898010
Based Epicuros vs the stoics.

>>898010
Belisarius deserves it more desu

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Either Otomo Sorin, or just the guys who went on the Tensho embassy, I need Catholic Samurai movies

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>>900515
Came here to post this, we really need this without all the vampire bullshit

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fuck the Genghis pandering

I wanna see how this nigga conquered half the world with the help of his keikaku doori even after he turned 70.

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>>898010
all time fav

>>898427
t. medievalfag

>>899751
All of history can sound lame if you generalize it like that. I could easily describe Byzantine history as " Greeks conquer some shit and then die to Turks" and it would sound boring af

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>>898010
My boy Khalid needs a biopic. The sword of Allah, the reason why Islam as we know it came to be. Dude even defeated the prophet in battle.

Nigga was so badass the Caliph forced him to retire because he feared that Khalid's prowess in combat would undermine the people's belief in God's omnipotence.

>>907126
why? I like James but I'm not sure if he'd make a good biopic. Then again, if it covers his Scottish kingship, his skillful negotiation for the succession to the English throne, I'd be interested. But imo his actual reign was uneventful.

>>898392
There's plenty of french movies about him, most famous one lasts around 5h starring Christian Clavier.

>>907091
medieval history > every other era of history

>>907091
Yes, and...? Why bother studying any part of history after the major inclusion of gunpowder in every relevant conflict? It's just fucking boring.

>>907222
That's a strange way of spelling Middle to Late Republic Rome. But trips confirm, honestly.

I seriously want a biopic on Nero. Just read about how he died, it's hilarious.

A biopic on Elagabalus would be good too but it'd offend too many people.

A movie about the Fall of Constantinople would be great.

A movie about the Battle of Sabine pass would be awesome but again the current political climate prevents it.

Roza Shanina and Simo Hahya NEED to have movies made about them.

A depressing political biopic about Ian Smith would be good. Also would not be made.

>>906738
That was Andronicus Comnenus you fucking retard.

>>907238
An HBO series about early mormons would be lewd.

>>898010
No, he doesn't. He was mostly just a stupid little shit who used his incredibly dedicated and talented subjects to soak up glory and deflect criticism in equal measure.

Who needs a biopic and who will get it because of cinema today is Theodora. And supporting that will get that era and that woman their proper due

>>898409
Because he tried to call their system tyrannical and taking criticism from the continent on freedom was something of a shock to their national myth

>>898427
how can you say that? it's one of the wildest periods in all history. Some called it the first world war!

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Belisarius was the first name that came to mind but then...

WILLIAM THE FUCKING MARSHALL

or, if you're French,

PIERRE GODDAMN TERRAIL

I'd watch the shit out of both of these men's lives.

Honorable mention to based William T Sherman

>>907238

He already has a biopic.

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>>906715
A series made with the early Komnenos Dynasty would be pretty cool.

>Alexios rising to power, putting down Normans and Turks and palace intrigue that lead to him becoming Basileus. Portrayed as ambitious, intelligent, but willing to use underhanded methods to secure his grip on power. See the start of the crusades too. Also see the future John II Komnenos grow up alongside a Turkish Slave also named John, and the beginnings of their bromance.
>Reign of John II, with John Axouchos as a major secondary character, who acts like Robert Baratheon's Ned Stark. Komnenos would be a pious, but plain looking dude whose naivety allows his family to plot against him. Axouchos would be his rougher, but more handsome twin that works behind the scenes for the good of his best friend and the Empire. See him reiintroduced after time skip to the succession of John II where he refuses the lands of the traitorous Anna. Axouchos deals with internal struggles of identity and loyalty as most of the imperial family dislike him since the emperor trusts him a lot more than any of his own relatives. Overarching subplot of reconquest and them dealing with the Crusader armies.

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>>907959
>Pivotal plot point where John II prepares to besiege Antioch, but dies in a hunting accident. Axouchos is struck by grief, but as a final favour to his best friend, ensures that the succession to his son Manuel is safe despite him pleading to choose Isaac instead.
>Manuel's reign beigns without many hitches, but Axouchos initially does not approve of him, being much closer to his brother Isaac. They have several arguments where Manuel gets berated and compared to his father. Through wanting to be an even greater Basileus than John, Manuel grows more comfortable in his ambitions, securing allies in the Latins, Franks as well as demanding the fealty of several crusader states. He introduces jousts and Western European customs and as a man of change, he revitalises his Empire through domestic policy. Learning from the experiences of his father, he gives no quarter to the unruly crusaders running through his lands and fights some of them at one point. He demonstrates his military might and bravado and Axouchos slowly grows to approve of him, who has now married into the family at this point and binds the house of Axouchos to the house of Komnenos. The Turkish John finally dies after defending Corfu from a Norman invasion and Manuel is alone. The fall of the Dynasty soon begins with setback after setback, and Manuel grows frustrated with his failed ambitions of reconquering Anatolia and the Holy Land. He finally suffers a major military setback against the Turks and having burnt through his years with warfare and energetic ambition, he dies of a slow fever.

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>>907964
>Final season showing glimpses of the Empire crumbling further and further with each successor, with none being as influential as the first three Komnenoi. Ends with the Fourth Crusade, where Alexios Doukas, determined to make Eastern Rome great again, overthrows the Basileus and tries to chase away the crusaders and refuses to pay them. The Latins sack the city and the epilogue shows the destruction of the great buildings of the Komnenoi and wholesale slaughter of Greeks. We see the ambition of Byzantium crushed forever as the Empire is never able to recover from this point. We then see the Hagia Sophia ransacked, then the destruction of the earliest columns raised by Constantine himself, and finally, the ruins of Old Byzantium from before even the Romans. The Old World finally dies. Tears are shed.

>>899046
>there was a project of an animation series about this. It was dropped due to lack of interest from the plebe.

Was it The 2 Queens? I thought it looked incredible but I couldn't find any info on who it was about at the time. It's been dropped?

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>>898010

>>906252
There's a Turkish drama about them, and also a shojo manga.

Most of these just sound like excuses for battle scenes or costume sex.

William (the motherfucking) Marshall.

>>907576
The Seven Years War was definitely the actual first world war.

>>899055
>>899072
Dang.

>>908660

How can you have a world war without africa or asia?

WWI had conflicts in all continents except Australia and the Americas, though even them participated in the war.

>>908686
It was fought all across the globe, literally including all continents. Don't be naive

>>902925
The world need more historical porn. Is a pov bj from Catherine the Great so much to ask?

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John of Gaunt and Wycliffe

>>907630
I could see Sherman being really good but only if they show how callousness and brutal he was to slaves and indians

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I feel one on Gustavus Adolphus could be pretty good

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>>898010

>>908105
yeah bro, got a problem with that bro? I'll bro you up bro.

>>898392
What about Waterloo? Anglo here, I believe he was a very, very good leader indeed. I don't have any hate towards him. However we did win in the end so I'm happy about that.