📽 /🎵 What is a true story that you'd like to see made into a movie?

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Of course, assuming that the movie was done right... good actors, stick to the actual events well, etc...

I think a lot of war stuff comes to mind for me, but the reason I was wonder is there is a movie out on Netflix called Woman of the Hour about a serial killer who was a contestant on the Dating Game back in the late 70's. I haven't watched it yet, but thought it was an interesting premise for a movie.

How Anna Kendrick’s ‘Woman of the Hour’ Finally Made It to Netflix After “Grueling” Writing Process

Screenwriter Ian McDonald tells The Hollywood Reporter why he had to change dialogue from the 'Dating Game' episode at the center of the movie and explains his failed efforts to meet contestant Cheryl Bradshaw.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

I know there's been documentaries and I guess movies(?) about DB Cooper, but if someone had the real story on all that and made a movie of it one day, that would be a good watch.

 

[Rsedge72]

know there's been documentaries and I guess movies(?) about DB Cooper, but if someone had the real story on all that and made a movie of it one day, that would be a good watch.

Yes, that’d be a good one!!

 

[TerryP]

The Pharaohs of the New World.

I was downtown a few weeks ago at the main branch of the public library. I got a little lost looking at the "trunks" they built in the Civil War for rice farms/plantations. In the same vein as The Swamp Fox, and what Mel Gibson did in his movie, The Patriot, there are untold stories there.

It rings true because those same swamps are still here.

 

[Krimson]

Life story of William Weatherford

 

[TideatMileHigh]

Henry Kissinger or Robert McNamara

 

[alabamajack]

A movie on the rise of Nick Saban throughout his coaching career

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

A movie on the rise of Nick Saban throughout his coaching career

Ha! Opening scene sees a boy working at a full service gas station in WV who is dismissive of an older customer while his dad watches from afar, while cleaning a wrench with a dirty rag. When the customer leaves, the boy gets his ass chewed out by his pop which includes a life lesson that he'd carry with him forever...

 

[Secondand26]

A movie about a young man from Alabama who went into the Army in order to send money to his family (both parents had passed away). Got sent to Korea & fought for a year and was then stationed in Japan. Was an instructor in a small mountaineering and winter warfare school in the army in Japan.
Was featured in a story in Stars & Stripes newspaper about the school.
Along with 9 other men rappelled into a semi-active volcano in the Pacific , spent the night in the crater & then recovered the bodies of 9 naval men who had crashed into the crater 6 months prior. Climbed Mt. Fuji, raised hell, & then returned to Alabama, raised a family, and never spoke much about it.
I learned about this more fully 10 years after he passed away. Researched it enough to find a widow in Pennsylvania who had a film of the venture into the volcano (husband was a member of this elite team who made the recovery in 1953 - he had a wind-up Kodak film camera). Met & interviewed the last living member about 8 years ago - he passed 3 years ago.
I would love to see a movie about this hero. This is a completely true story about my dad.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

A movie about a young man from Alabama who went into the Army in order to send money to his family (both parents had passed away). Got sent to Korea & fought for a year and was then stationed in Japan. Was an instructor in a small mountaineering and winter warfare school in the army in Japan.
Was featured in a story in Stars & Stripes newspaper about the school.
Along with 9 other men rappelled into a semi-active volcano in the Pacific , spent the night in the crater & then recovered the bodies of 9 naval men who had crashed into the crater 6 months prior. Climbed Mt. Fuji, raised hell, & then returned to Alabama, raised a family, and never spoke much about it.
I learned about this more fully 10 years after he passed away. Researched it enough to find a widow in Pennsylvania who had a film of the venture into the volcano (husband was a member of this elite team who made the recovery in 1953 - he had a wind-up Kodak film camera). Met & interviewed the last living member about 8 years ago - he passed 3 years ago.
I would love to see a movie about this hero. This is a completely true story about my dad.

That's awesome!

 

[Secondand26]

That's awesome!

Thank you. What’s awesome (and bewildering) is how I “found” so many of the people who gave me film, photos & stories. I literally felt like the Good Lord was providing it - I definitely can’t take credit for it.way too many coincidences, if you know what I mean!
He did all of that before the age of 22! What a badass generation!

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Thank you. What’s awesome (and bewildering) is how I “found” so many of the people who gave me film, photos & stories. I literally felt like the Good Lord was providing it - I definitely can’t take credit for it.way too many coincidences, if you know what I mean!
He did all of that before the age of 22! What a badass generation!

Weird how things like that work out and sometimes things fall into place. Really neat story...

 

[rick4bama]

A movie about a young man from Alabama who went into the Army in order to send money to his family (both parents had passed away). Got sent to Korea & fought for a year and was then stationed in Japan. Was an instructor in a small mountaineering and winter warfare school in the army in Japan.
Was featured in a story in Stars & Stripes newspaper about the school.
Along with 9 other men rappelled into a semi-active volcano in the Pacific , spent the night in the crater & then recovered the bodies of 9 naval men who had crashed into the crater 6 months prior. Climbed Mt. Fuji, raised hell, & then returned to Alabama, raised a family, and never spoke much about it.
I learned about this more fully 10 years after he passed away. Researched it enough to find a widow in Pennsylvania who had a film of the venture into the volcano (husband was a member of this elite team who made the recovery in 1953 - he had a wind-up Kodak film camera). Met & interviewed the last living member about 8 years ago - he passed 3 years ago.
I would love to see a movie about this hero. This is a completely true story about my dad.

I would go see in at the movies!

 

[Krimson]

That's awesome!

Yes it is

 

[rick4bama]

Last survivor of the USS Arizona. Man I love these type of movie. Something like To Hell and Back, we know this is about Audie Murphy.
Here is about the last surviving of the USS Arizona . We need to keep these men and women in our history.

Lou Conter was the last surviving crew member of the USS Arizona, which sank during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Conter died at the age of 102 on April 1, 2024.

 

[24and7]

I would like to see a movie about Pee Wee Gaskins… People need to really see what real evil is..and show the whole electric chair scene..

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I would like to see a movie about Pee Wee Gaskins… People need to really see what real evil is..and show the whole electric chair scene..

Damn. I'd heard of him, but didn't know (or remember) his story.

A plot twist from his wiki entry...

On September 2, 1982, Gaskins committed another murder, for which he earned the title of the "Meanest Man in America". While incarcerated in the high-security block at the South Carolina Correctional Institution, Gaskins killed a death row inmate named Rudolph Tyner, who had received his sentence for killing an elderly couple during a bungled armed robbery of their store in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.[31] Gaskins was hired to commit this murder by Tony Cimo, the son of Tyner's victims.[38] Cimo was initially charged with murder, but pled guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. He was paroled in 1986.[29][39]

Gaskins initially made several unsuccessful attempts to kill Tyner by lacing his food and drink with poison before he opted to use explosives to kill him. To accomplish this, Gaskins rigged a device similar to a portable radio in Tyner's cell and told Tyner this would allow them to "communicate between cells".[38] When Tyner followed Gaskins's instructions to hold a speaker (laden with C-4 plastic explosive, unbeknownst to him) to his ear at an agreed time, Gaskins detonated the explosives from his cell and killed Tyner.[37] He later said, "The last thing he [Tyner] heard was me laughing." Gaskins was tried for Tyner's murder and sentenced to death. It was the first time in the history of South Carolina that a white man was sentenced to death for the murder of a black man.[40]

PeeWee from Grand Bay ain't even that bad.

 

[24and7]

Damn. I'd heard of him, but didn't know (or remember) his story.

A plot twist from his wiki entry...



PeeWee from Grand Bay ain't even that bad.

One of the most violent serial killers ever… but he gets little attention…My uncle actually was a death row guard in Columbia Prison… Pee Wee actually killed several in prison before he finally got the chair.. Even blew a guy up,,… When they fried him, everyone had PeeWee parties..

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

One of the most violent serial killers ever… but he gets little attention…My uncle actually was a death row guard in Columbia Prison… Pee Wee actually killed several in prison before he finally got the chair.. Even blew a guy up,,… When they fried him, everyone had PeeWee parties..

That was the part I linked/quoted. Pretty resourceful, yet diabolical.

 

[24and7]

That was the part I linked/quoted. Pretty resourceful, yet diabolical.

My uncle told my daddy that that’s the one person there that bothered him every day every hour… he said there was no way to know if you was on his bad side until he killed you… and he said if you made a joke in front of him “ that someone needed killing”… if you was his friend, he would come back later and say “that guy that you wanted killed, I killed him for you”… he also said he was bad to shank people… just for pissing him off or looking at him wrong..

 

[Krimson]

Bell Tree Smith is another interesting alabama character a movie could be made on