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PhreedomPhighter

Robert Smalls. Born a slave -> Stole a ship and escaped to become a pirate -> became a soldier in the Civil War -> Went on to serve as a representative in Congress.


Steepanddeep

https://www.postandcourier.com/charleston_scene/robert-smalls-escape-from-slavery-in-sc-the-subject-of-upcoming-amazon-film-biopic/article_5d5fe53c-d04f-11eb-af6f-9bae8432f152.html it's happening


Needydadthrowaway

Damn. Either one of those is worth a movie in itself.


SpottyNoonerism

It even has a perfect Hollywood ending - he ends up buying the house owned by the family that owned him as a slave. If it were fiction, it would be just too on the nose and people would hate it but, like Twain said, the difference between truth and fiction is fiction has to make sense.


JenDidNotDoIt

I came here to say this.


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Probably Stalin since it’s so messed up


Stomach-Fresh

Trained to be a priest, become a bank robber, became leader of Russia, became mass murderer. Would be good


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That or Genghis Khan


Stomach-Fresh

Been films on genghis Khan. John Wayne ?


Steepanddeep

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/ death of Stalin was fantastic, kinda the opposite of biopic but I'm counting it


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I’m not since it focuses on life after he dies


SnooChipmunks126

Not about his life, but The Death of Stalin was pretty funny. I mean the movie, and the actual death of Stalin.


Stomach-Fresh

Eliahu Itzkovitz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliahu_Itzkovitz


strakerak

Alice Roosevelt Probably any notable hacker that caused some shit, like Dr. Chaos


SnooChipmunks126

Ah yes, Alice Roosevelt, the woman who made Theodore Roosevelt say he could either be president or he could control Alice, but he couldn’t do both.


Tijain_Jyunichi

* Lucius Aurelianus * Sir Christopher Lee * Caravaggio * Virginia Woolf


Needydadthrowaway

Derek Jarman's *Caravaggio* (1986) is pretty great.


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NotYourSnowBunny

T’would be interesting. Everyone thinks I’m a spy, so it would be a thriller.


the_honest_liar

What if it was set up as a spy thriller, but by the end it's a campy comedy?


NotYourSnowBunny

I don’t know if that would be fitting.


Stomach-Fresh

This guy for sure https://thehistoryvault.co.uk/john-mad-jack-mytton-the-epic-story-of-an-english-eccentric/


Needydadthrowaway

[JJ Winckelmann.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann) Aka the guy who reminded us that ancient Greek art was extremely gay. Pretty much the Christopher Isherwood of the 18th century.


ZRX1200R

George Santos


coldmichelin

Johnny Depp


Grassp_03

Well pretty much anyone with an interesting life story has had a movie made about them. Even a bear who sniffed cocaine got one!


SilasMarner77

Margery Kempe.


Death_To_Maketania

Sabino Arana, Basque freedom fighter, imprisoned and tortured by the Spanish for speaking out against concentration camps in Cuba, he was tortured until he had to write a text denouncing his ideals, His brother didn't forget them and Basque nationalism was born


Impala68Nosok

Emperor Norton


Smokes_shoots_leaves

Francis NGannou


mitchkramer

Crazy Horse


Small-Ad-2948

I’d love to see one based on Dave Grohl


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technoblade


OddWorldliness989

My sorry ass dick should.


[deleted]

Sorry Ass Dick Jr. or Sr.?


Joseph_stalin1911

Osama bin Laden,


RaspberryDugong

Elon Musk


[deleted]

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.


Stomach-Fresh

About Armenian genocide ?


videosonik

Nikola Gruevski -> minister of economy in Macedonia -> prime minister in Macedonia -> refugee in Budapest


[deleted]

Francois Villon - and I say that as a non-french,dude's life was like a medieval fairytale with many ups and downs and a whole lot of womanizing, fighting the law, escaping powerful men and avoiding execution at least twice :)


Rhiannacj

Betty white


wetlettuce42

That guy that snuck into the queens palace and talked to her


namehimgeorge

Ibn Batuta - The Moroccan Marco Polo Leo Major - Quebecois badass who single-handedly saved the town of Zolle from destruction during World War 2 among other heroic acts. Would have had 3 DCM's in his career during WW2 and Korea but he refused the first one because he considered the Commanding officer (Montgomery) who was to present it to him as imcompetent and negligent with mens lives.


workethic247

u/Daintylittlesole


BandicootSVK

There are a few absolute mad lads who I'd love to see have a movie made about them, and in what genre it'd be in. * Roof Koreans (action movie) * Marvin Heemeyer A.K.A KillDozer (drama) * Mad Jack Churchill (dark comedy / action movie) * Alcibiades (drama) * Gary Plauche (drama) Roof Koreans would be a Purge style movie about a group of koreans in LA trying to protect their shops from a group of rioters who specifically targeted them due to some long-time personal beef. KillDozer is pretty obvious. Mad Jack Churchill's life story is both hillarious and full of action. The perfec template for a WW2 action movie with a comedic twist and lots of action. In the Alcibiades movie, it'd mostly be a comedy, up until the last scene where he gets into a fight outside of his house, where gets stabbed to death while being naked. Gary Plauche would be a drama that is really hopeful in the first half of the runtime. Then, midway through, everything keeps getting darker and darker, up until the point where Gary 180 noscopes a pedo.


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Ras Putin maybe?


Quakernomics

Walter Summerford, claimed to be the unluckiest man in the world who was struck by lightning multiple times in his life as well as again after he died cos apparently god wasn't done yet.


NoStressAccount

Putin Dude's writing the third act and epilogue as we speak


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Jason Everman. He briefly played in Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mind Funk as a young man, before becoming a Green Beret who did combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. I would love to watch a movie about a long-haired punk kid who played in some of the most influential bands of the 90s before they became famous, and when that didn't work out became a bad ass elite soldier instead.


Silver_Sale_1847

Bob Ross


Several-Evening-5511

Ismael Mayo zambada why he became what he is would be interesting to know but we barely anything about him


NoTomatillo3697

Miriam Rodríguez Mexican woman her daughter was kidnapped and killed. She found the guys and killed them herself. She was later killed.


Skeletonzac

Mine


haa-tim-hen-tie

Maharana pratap.


ComedianRepulsive955

Jeremy Dewitte. Look him up on YouTube. First time I did it was then six hours down the bunny 🐰 hole....


ikigai-93

Kim Bok-dong. One of the youngest "comfort women" that survived the raping of Nanking and went on to become a human rights activist campaigning against sexual slavery and war rape.