Back when I was younger, people wanted to be screenplay writers like people want to be influencers today. It still had the mystique from the 70s, when a few people were actually allowed to be artists. My initial efforts at writing were headed in that direction, my brother even worked on Avatar, but I soon discerned a certain gulf between myself and the business, and the indications were pointing me toward nonfiction anyway. So I have some old ideas about films on the back burner, and nothing will come of them unless something changes drastically, so you can have them.
The rum runners during Prohibition, this would make a good series. There was a guy called Bill McCoy, that's where the phrase "the real McCoy" came from, I was looking at him as a sort of template. You would have different locations, from the Caribbean to snowy Canada, and the characters are colorful. This is a sure thing. Akhenaten. This is a more recent idea, Philip Glass did an opera but I think it would work better as a film. There was an incident where a flamboyant architect named Stanford White was shot in the face at Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve by a deranged psychopathic robber baron rich kid named Harry Thaw. It was over a woman, I can't recall her name but she was a big time model, and Thaw was a demonic personality so you have some interesting psychological material. This was covered ineptly by E.L. Doctorow in Ragtime, but it merits better treatment. Then of course, Francis Bacon and the whole Shakespeare thing. That's why I initially started piling up all this research on Bacon, to do a screenplay, but then Anonymous came out, pushing the whole Oxford psyop, so I gave it up, but continued with Bacon. Quite a number of historical figures would make good films, I could name twenty off the top of my head. Cataline would be a good film, for one. There are other old ideas but I can't remember them all right now.
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