Definitely a movie depicting the European discovery of porcelain.
He got some treatment in The Prestige, but I also would like to see more of him.
They have already been given the HBO treatment, though as a movie not as a series. Last time I looked, it wan’t available through HBO Go, and I haven’t seen it run in years. I don’t know why. It was pretty good.
Actually this one’s got a good shot at being made. There’s a new book on Bly that’s recently been published and it’s getting popular support.
I’d like to see a Jack Johnson biography. It’s a story with a huge amount of potential. But the only movie about him was The Great White Hope which is dated and is actually about a fictional version of Johnson named Jack Jefferson. That and Ken Burns’ 2005 documentary.
That and I still have to write my Wright brothers script.
Trivia note I learned last year. The Bunkers settled down in Mount Airy, NC - the town where Andy Griffith would later be born and upon which he would base Mayberry.
Joseph Smith
The truly bizarre “Mad Jack” Churchill, who had the only confirmed archery kill(!) of the Second World War.
Heck his long rivalry with Edison over the development of electrical power would be colorful for a movie of its own. For that matter, isn’t a warts and all bio of Edison way overdue (the ones from the early 20th century were just hero worship)?
Other projects:
–the development of TV. The oddball Scottish inventor (John Baird) vs the Idaho farmboy (Philo Farnsworth) vs the ruthless mogul who worked his way from the dirt poor shetels of Russia (David Sarnoff), and how they intersected.
–HBO miniseries on Norman Lear’s heyday of the 70s. He reinvents what TV can be and say, all while both fighting his network overlords and prima donna actors alll the way.
–full blown biopics of David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Two fascinating characters whose life stories are really the stories of their countries’ histories. Problem is how would anything short of multiple movies give their stories justice.
I really like this one. Anyone who’s looked this over should at least scan the wiki. She was a wholly remarkable woman.
When I saw the thread title The Siege of Malta was the first thing that came to me. A truly excellent book on The Siege of Malta (as well as Lepanto and some other similar stuff) is Empires of the Sea.
I also agree with the OP that the life of Alfred the Great would lend itself well to film.
There is a movie about the siege of Malta, called Malta Story. I stars a very young Alec Guinness as a reconnaissance pilot. Great historical footage of some of the actual air raids is included, as well as some convoy arrivals. All on all, not a great movie though. One of those post-war British movies that had no budget, though IIRC some of it was shot on Malta.
When I had Netflix Streaming, it was available there.
I was thinking about the Ottoman siege of Malta, not the World War II siege. Although a big budget version of the World War II siege would be cool too.
That sounds exciting – a bunch of foot stools attacking an island. 
The Burr/Hamilton duel, as long as they give loads of backstory.
I posted in the book thread about this book in February? and I think it would make a great film. The race between Bly and Bisland is all but forgotten, but I would love to see it.
Vidal’s novel has been optioned for film a couple of times but never come to light. I think partly it was fear he’d get p.o.d and sue (which he had a tendency to do), but now that he’s dead there’s less chance.
Hamilton’s exact insult that caused Burr to challenge him is unknown. The main thing I like from the novel is Vidal’s version of what was said, and which is not inconceviable that Hamilton would have said, was that
Hamilton spread a rumor that Burr was having an incestuous relationship with his daughter, Theodosia
Ron Chernow’s bio Alexander Hamilton is magnificent, and could make a good John Adams-style HBO multi-hour biopic.
William Cushing, “Lincoln’s commando,” was a dashing, crazy-brave Navy officer who loved a good stunt. He’d be a great subject for a movie: William B. Cushing - Wikipedia
Or brash, cigar-chomping Cal Rodgers, the first to fly across America, crash by crash: Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Wikipedia
I’d love to see a movie based on George MacDonald Fraser’s Black Ajax, which was the story of the superfight between former slave Tom Molineaux and British boxing champion Tom Cribb.
Came in to say GW. He is such a beloved and important figure, his story could make such a fascinating film and spur new interest in American History. Roosevelt would be another awesome subject.
Who would you cast as George btw?