Rapaire,

"...A film version of "The Canterbury Tales" and the "Decameron" and "Cyrano de Bergerac."..."

I muist say, I rather liked the Depardieu version of 'Cyrano de Bergerac' (the one with the Anthony Burgess translation in the sub-titles).


duellingbouzoukis,

They did make 'Royal Flash' as a film (with a script by Fraser himself) but I couldn't help feeling that the casting was wrong (the only decent one there was Ollie Reed as an OTT Younger Bismark).


I agree with others about a decent version of The Illiad/'Troy' that take more from Homer than just the names of the characters. I like the sound of a 'Victorian' version of War of the Worlds and I'd like to see an ACCURATE version of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' (rather than one based on Christian family propaganda) or perhaps an accurate biopic of William Bligh.
One story that would make a decent film would be a decent biopic of Captain Lord Cochrane. For those who've never heard of him, he's the real sailor upon whose exploits, Hornblower and the rest are based.

Regards

Walrus