Peter T.-Well, if you glorified Cortez's conquest, it would be really un-PC, drawing a lot of flack. If you didn't, you wouldn't have a movie. I personally prefer films in which the hero is heroic. Books can do well with non-heroic or even anti-heroic protagonists, but film as a medium seems to have difficulty with it.

I'd love to see a film version of Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, but that would have to be a multiseason TV show to do the plot any justice at all. Maybe Roger Zelazny's "Nine Princes in Amber."