Biopics You Would Like To See Made!

Start with The Rockin' Vickers in 1965...

 

Marvin Gaye - ideally by Spike Lee, Steve McQueen, or Ava DuVernay.
Frank Sinatra - Probably for Netflix, since Sinatra's story needs some room to do it justice...and while I'm wishing, helmed by Martin Scorsese.
Robert Moses vs. Jane Jacobs
Ted Williams
Sidney Farber and Mary Lasker - The odd alliance between a bookish pathologist and Manhattan social doyenne/health care advocate, who were instrumental in the fight against cancer.

 

Let me say here that[Marion Barry ]was no joke,he did good things for the poor in D.C. during his time as mayor,I know it ended poorly but he has a statue in his honor.

 

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...only problem is nobody would be alive at the end!!!

 

A Sam Houston mini series

my favorite 19th century scoundrel: Dan Sickles. Did he almost lose the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2 or did he break up the Confederate attack (as James Longstreet later confirmed)?

Xenophon and the march of the Ten Thousand

 

Mr Peanut, The Early Years

 

Oh when he was lightly salted,hehehehe!

 

The life of William Shatner. We could call it Dunkirk.

 

Joe Dimaggio... his biographies were always fascinating to me... the king of NY during the 40s and early 50s... the 56 Game Hit Streak, the injuries, his issues with the famed rookie and heir replacement Mickey Mantle, the Marilyn Monroe marriage.... the Yankee Clipper.... so much good stuff for a movie. Always enjoyed any Baseball movies as well. Love that time period.

 

I'd like a more factual movie on Buddy Holly and The Crickets... Gary Busey did well enough with what he had to work with, but that's not saying much about the movie itself... The movie is a fictionalized version of a real person and real events-Okay, most bio-pics are, but "The Buddy Holly Story" went quite extreme with that, and could have used some more actual truths/facts in the film...

It's very doubtful it'll ever be made anyway, but if they do attempt another Buddy Holly movie, I hope they get someone much slimmer and quite a bit younger to play Buddy... Gary Busey was too bulky, and at 33/34 (and looking it!) too old to convincingly play a 20 to 22 year old Charles Hardin Holley.

 

Two I'd love to see:

We know so little about the U.S.S.R. space program. I think Yuri Gagarin deserves a good biopic. His is a sad but fascinating story.

I think a solid biopic on Don Cornelius would be extremely entertaining. His is also a sad but fascinating story.

 

Paganini- He was like a rock star in his day and there were stories that he sold his soul to the devil for his violin playing skills long before Robert Johnson.

Eric Dolphy- kept a bag of dried beans in the closet to make sure he would be able to eat (he knew his music was not very commercial) and died from an untreated diabetic coma. The doctors assumed he was just another drugged out black jazz musician when he collapsed.

 

I was born and raised in D.C. Mr. Barry was a local hero, a totally corrupt politician, and a very funny guy.
I used to keep a clipping file from The Star and The Post on his zany antics: "Mayor's car involved in
two-car accident early Sunday morning." etc. (seemed like the story timeline was always 1:30 - 2:30 a.m.)

 

Dave Brubeck. I recently listened to the interview CD that came with Private Brubeck Remembers, about his experiences leading a band during World War II, and thought it might make a good movie.

 

I feel like there has to be something good with a decent budget that could be done with the life of Charles Ives (insurance expert by day, experimental composer on nights and weekends).

But perhaps Charles Ives is so unknown that it couldn't get the go-ahead.

 

Maybe you were born in-Georgetown,because in the D.C. I was born and raised in,Marion started programs like[Pride Inc.]to give young fellas like me something to do in the summer,instituted programs for senior citizens,and yes he had crooks working in his administration I wouldn't say that he was totally crooked.

 

Born in N.W. grew up in N.E.
(Georgetown was full of beatnicks).
Mr. Barry was a hero to many and a
community leader when it mattered.
If you ever met him, you are aware of
his sense of humor and would not be
offended by his biopic being a comedy.
I doubt that he would mind as long as
it was not a fact-free "hit job". Peace.

 

Yes....and let's forget 'King Kong ' shall we?

 

Naomi Watts was good in 'King Kong '?

 

I'd like to see a bio-pic of this forum.
Gee....who would play me ?

 

I don't believe one mediocre role invalidates somebody's entire body of work. He was excellent in Robert Linklater's film Bernie.

 

Lux Interior and Poison Ivy - the Cramps. You can't tell me there isn't a fascinating story there.

 

That's why I'm agreeing.

 

I could not agree more.
That movie was horrid and Busey played Holly as a buffoon of some kind.
Calling it a " fictionalized account " is giving it much too much credit. It is no more about the real Buddy Holly than a Popeye The Sailor Man cartoon is.
An absolute travesty of a bio-pic , there is barely anything in it that is true.
Will a good Buddy Holly movie ever be produced ? Sadly , no.

 

I could see Jamie Foxx being excellent in this role.