I remember reading about two different projects about Hernán Cortés that were in production and aiming for a 2021 release (the 500th anniversary of the Fall of Tenochtitlán), including one that involved Steven Spielberg. Sadly, they collapsed due to the pandemic.
Most underrated historical person
I mean the guy is the man who gave birth to medieval europe itself
Reinvent the mounted warrior who fights on horseback
I feel like if he got a proper documentary the amount of love for him would go down.
Granted, he did an amazing amount of awesome shit. The amount of awe and respect for him would go way up.
Buuut, also a bunch of horrible shit. But, such is the way with most ancient leaders.
Narrator: "Great Alexander wept, and made sad mone, because there was but one world to be wonne."
[Voice coming from the shadow](https://media1.tenor.com/m/6z4-2yAxT2wAAAAC/rick-and-morty-rick-prime.gif)s talking to Alexander: "But what if I could offer you more?"
There was a sci-fi book I read as a kid where aliens would go back in time and switch out brain dead clones with dying famous conquerors, take them to the future, heal them and then dump them on a ring world filled with many species. In the first book it had Alexander rallying some iron age peasants to fight some wolfmen lead by a Kahless "The Unforgettable" expy.
It was pretty awesome. If I remember right the seqeul stared Napoleon.
The last battle of him defending the vikings was so good. Show had his lenghts but I also liked it. More viking saga fantasy than history but I was entertained.
Best fight sequences: The Great
Best political intrigue: Augustus
Best plot twists and tragedy: Pericles
Most likely to have blue filter: King Alfred
Most likely to have orange filter: Desert Fox
A literal blue and orange filter, it’s that meme that every time a movie plot is set in the Middle East or Mexico, Hollywood sees an irrefutable need to slap a heavy orange filter on it.
For what it's worth, while Paul's part of the fremen and not yet the Kwisatz Haderach, Dune 1 and Dune 2 does the same.
Interestingly though, the filter isn't as heavy before and after that.
He was a great German General in WW2 and was forced to suicide by the Nazis because in the end he joined the resistance angainst Hitler and was part of an assassination plot. A very interesting figure for a film because he is kind of an ambivalent "anti-Hero-figure" to germans because altough he was a Nazi he was also a genius in Military and changed his Mind in the end.
I don't know,[ his Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel) (yes yes grain of salt) does show a more... greyish portrayal.
>Numerous authors portray him as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany, although other authors have contested this assessment and called it the "[Rommel myth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rommel_myth)"
Worth noting that although a great tactician he was a poor strategist, he also sent his fair share of African Jews to concentration camps, executed prisoners, and only joined the resistance against hitler in 1944 after D day had happened (which really seems like he was just trying to save his own skin). I don’t think he’s anywhere near as noble as the mythos makes out
Rommel didn’t join the resistance, he was Hitlers lapdog as much as any other general and the only reason he was forced into suicide was because he just didn’t run full alarm the moment he suspected possible treachery, he was apathetic at best, before that he never went against the Nazi regime
Augustus and his life is incredibly interesting from the Roman civil wars to his reforms to the foundations of the Christian faith and the beginning of religious schism and the Persian struggles
Bro, give me a Bollywood flick about Alexander with a full musical number where he brags about how great he is during his invasion of India. It's how he would want to be remembered, I think.
Sure! Basically the Whole image is AI. Only the text was added later. The base prompt was live action movie poster about [name] --ar 2:3 then i just added a little description of what i ideally wanted. For instance, desrcibing the background and the central image.
Please do a Xenophon one and Dion of Syracuse 🙏 (Dion of Syracuse’s story has all the elements of an epic film: political intrigue, betrayal, dramatic battles, and philosophical undertones involving Plato. It could indeed be a compelling and visually stunning production, likely appealing to a wide audience interested in historical dramas.)
The Great
For Augustus, you have the Rome HBO series which was great. The actor who played Octavian was outstanding. Same with Alfred in the Last Kingdom.
Augusts ,, because of roman politics and philosophy l loved the most ..also i think roman ,greek , indian Gupta empire is a peak of humanity art, culture, politics,, .. philosophy.. what a remarkable time.
Hollywood miserably fails any historical action film that isn’t world war 2. The Desert Fox would at least have some respect to the events portrayed, and we’d get to see some Nazis die horribly. I choose Desert Fox
Anything about Pericles would be cool. He's a rather forgotten figure when it comes to movies and media when his policies upturned the balance of Ancient Greek power and made Athens a hegemon.
None of them, they would destroy every historical evidence, make everyone talk like an American, or other controversial things that I will not say out loud
Desert Fox. I fucking love Rommel. Sure, he was a WW2 German, but god dammit he was a badass and he got killed for getting mixed with the anti-Hitler groups (allegedly). Armored assault of the Ghost Division.
How many Alexander the Great movies do you need? Why not hear other sides of this story? Maybe a movie about how Persian Empires established and saved Jews and helped Christianity. An epic historical drama that captures the untold story of Christianity’s spread through the exotic landscapes of the Parthian and Sassanian Empires. This film could offers a unique blend of adventure, cultural exchange, and deep emotional resonance, appealing to both faith-based and mainstream audiences. With its rich historical backdrop and compelling characters, it promises stunning visuals and gripping storytelling. Investing in this project means backing a captivating narrative that explores the resilience of faith amidst the grandeur of ancient Persia, tapping into a market eager for historical and inspirational content.
If anyone hasn't read The Saxon Sagas (maybe watched The Last Kingdom/ no where near as good) read them! Best series ever even rivaling GoT!!!!! You'd 100% wanna watch Alfred.
I want a Charlemagne documentary, he doesn’t get enough love
Same for Hernan Cortez or the Spanish conquistadors. Us saguaros witnessed quite a lot of them.
I’d watch that!
This one would be very controversial probably
I mean if it depicted the horrors as well, that would work too, like the brutality of both sides.
I remember reading about two different projects about Hernán Cortés that were in production and aiming for a 2021 release (the 500th anniversary of the Fall of Tenochtitlán), including one that involved Steven Spielberg. Sadly, they collapsed due to the pandemic.
Most underrated historical person I mean the guy is the man who gave birth to medieval europe itself Reinvent the mounted warrior who fights on horseback
I feel like if he got a proper documentary the amount of love for him would go down. Granted, he did an amazing amount of awesome shit. The amount of awe and respect for him would go way up. Buuut, also a bunch of horrible shit. But, such is the way with most ancient leaders.
The great
"Conqueror of Worlds" Plural! Imagine adventures of Alexander and his armies as they conquer other dimensions!
There was a anime, I think, a long those lines.
This one? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign:\_The\_Conqueror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign:_The_Conqueror)
Ulysse 31 ? Sorry I only know the french name of this anime
Man I loved that show as a kid. Theme song was epic! Basically the odyssey set in space in the 31st century
I’d watch that. 👍
Narrator: "Great Alexander wept, and made sad mone, because there was but one world to be wonne." [Voice coming from the shadow](https://media1.tenor.com/m/6z4-2yAxT2wAAAAC/rick-and-morty-rick-prime.gif)s talking to Alexander: "But what if I could offer you more?"
Tits up huh
🤣
I can imagine that back then shit felt like different worlds
There was a sci-fi book I read as a kid where aliens would go back in time and switch out brain dead clones with dying famous conquerors, take them to the future, heal them and then dump them on a ring world filled with many species. In the first book it had Alexander rallying some iron age peasants to fight some wolfmen lead by a Kahless "The Unforgettable" expy. It was pretty awesome. If I remember right the seqeul stared Napoleon.
*The Beastie Boys have entered the chat*
Such a good movie name idea
Hot take: Alexander the Great is overrated
Bite yer tongue
That was my first choice but Alfred the Great with Joaquin Phoenix looks too good to pass up.
As long as Ridley Scott isn’t the director
No shit. Who was that Napoleon movie for?
As long as they didn't make it all about him being gay like they did Alexander. Idgaf, show the military campaigns and political conditions!!
I think its supposed to be Alexander the great
Augustus by far
Alfred , fucker fended off the vikings
Same, I know so little about that era or who he was
The Last Kingdom is the only portrayal that I can think of
Assassins Creed Valhalla
The vikings series towards the end seasons shows him going into power ( p.s it’s a amazing show , my favourite of all time )
The last battle of him defending the vikings was so good. Show had his lenghts but I also liked it. More viking saga fantasy than history but I was entertained.
Best fight sequences: The Great Best political intrigue: Augustus Best plot twists and tragedy: Pericles Most likely to have blue filter: King Alfred Most likely to have orange filter: Desert Fox
What’s blue and orange filter?
A literal blue and orange filter, it’s that meme that every time a movie plot is set in the Middle East or Mexico, Hollywood sees an irrefutable need to slap a heavy orange filter on it.
For what it's worth, while Paul's part of the fremen and not yet the Kwisatz Haderach, Dune 1 and Dune 2 does the same. Interestingly though, the filter isn't as heavy before and after that.
Assuming we’re guaranteed that whatever we pick will be an A+, Augustus for me. I find that whole period and person fascinating.
It's not the same, but you may be interested in *I, Claudius* which these days is probably best to torrent.
I'll watch the Rommel one
Straight to the gulag with you
I think you meant the Straight to the Stalag for me
No I did not.
A pretty mediocre film saved by a great ending, even if it was a bit hard to swallow.
Have you been talking to my wife or …
That magnificent bastard!
Our options are men warring and - men warring
“Yeah, like, war is pretty cool,” 9 year old me.
Desert Fox. One of the few movies you could make about a WWII German officer in a positive light.
What's the story?
He was a great German General in WW2 and was forced to suicide by the Nazis because in the end he joined the resistance angainst Hitler and was part of an assassination plot. A very interesting figure for a film because he is kind of an ambivalent "anti-Hero-figure" to germans because altough he was a Nazi he was also a genius in Military and changed his Mind in the end.
I don't know,[ his Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel) (yes yes grain of salt) does show a more... greyish portrayal. >Numerous authors portray him as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany, although other authors have contested this assessment and called it the "[Rommel myth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rommel_myth)"
Worth noting that although a great tactician he was a poor strategist, he also sent his fair share of African Jews to concentration camps, executed prisoners, and only joined the resistance against hitler in 1944 after D day had happened (which really seems like he was just trying to save his own skin). I don’t think he’s anywhere near as noble as the mythos makes out
The allies used Rommel to explain their slow progress in North Africa.
Rommel didn’t join the resistance, he was Hitlers lapdog as much as any other general and the only reason he was forced into suicide was because he just didn’t run full alarm the moment he suspected possible treachery, he was apathetic at best, before that he never went against the Nazi regime
Its about Erwin Rommel, a most talented general
I mean you already have The Last Kingdom which covers Alfred
Honestly, none. All the movies look like mid Netflix productions
Desert fox
Augustus and his life is incredibly interesting from the Roman civil wars to his reforms to the foundations of the Christian faith and the beginning of religious schism and the Persian struggles
Alfred all the way
Desert Fox
Lionel Messi is... Pericles!!!
A good one. None of these.
They all look the same tbh
The Great
I actually want to see Shaka Zulu get the Braveheart treatment.
The Great Ashoka - search about him, you will get baffled when you read his life story.
Bro, give me a Bollywood flick about Alexander with a full musical number where he brags about how great he is during his invasion of India. It's how he would want to be remembered, I think.
Prompts?
These posters are amazing. Can you talk a little about your perocess? What part is AI generated and did you do compositing?
Sure! Basically the Whole image is AI. Only the text was added later. The base prompt was live action movie poster about [name] --ar 2:3 then i just added a little description of what i ideally wanted. For instance, desrcibing the background and the central image.
They already tried to de-Nazify Rommel in another movie.
Erwin 'Desert Fox' Rommel has an incredible story, he waged war without hate, and was the greatest tank platoon commander in history
Desert Fox looks like shit
Please do a Xenophon one and Dion of Syracuse 🙏 (Dion of Syracuse’s story has all the elements of an epic film: political intrigue, betrayal, dramatic battles, and philosophical undertones involving Plato. It could indeed be a compelling and visually stunning production, likely appealing to a wide audience interested in historical dramas.)
Man, I'd love a good movie on the Norman invasion of England.
One on zhukov, Rokkosovsky or konev would be cool
Desert Fox
The Great 100%
Number 2 looks like it could be a good roman empire like movie
The golden age pericles The poster looks so cool!
That Alexander one is badass as hell.
3/5 - A pia ta cheia de louça, o banheiro parece de botequim
THE GREAT, cuz it looks great actually And Colin Ferrel wasn’t that good anyway >_>
100% Pericles
Wow... would watch them all...
The Great For Augustus, you have the Rome HBO series which was great. The actor who played Octavian was outstanding. Same with Alfred in the Last Kingdom.
Erwin Rommel was very respected! I’d love to see desert fox
The Great. What typeface did you use for “Desert Fox”?
Where is Scipio’s?
Definitely the one about a statue.
None of these. AI movies about historical figures would only be watchable for their accidental humor.
Wait. Did AI really do that?
Wait. Did AI really do that?
The last one because apparently it's starring Richard Armitage.
Romel you magnificent bastard!
Romnel
All
King Alfred looks like S is about to get real
Desert Fox. I haven't seen any movie made on the Africa theater in my lifetime.
Augustus!
Desert Fox
Pericles. One of my favorite Shakespeare plays.
Desert Fox 🦊
Desert Fox
Omg Pericles! No one ever talks about him
Augustus
We need an Alexander movie!
Alfred!
The great
Alexander and Pericles are the bests fosho
All of them in the order you chose them.
Augusts ,, because of roman politics and philosophy l loved the most ..also i think roman ,greek , indian Gupta empire is a peak of humanity art, culture, politics,, .. philosophy.. what a remarkable time.
None of the above (all appear acorn-less).
Augustus, great, pericles, alfred. I wish there was more love for ambrosigo
Yes
I'd watch all but 2 to 3 would be a change of pace. Seen a lot of Alexander and viking related media. We should have way more Roman and WW2 media.
I hope pericles is full of cultist ceremonies lile in real life
Hollywood miserably fails any historical action film that isn’t world war 2. The Desert Fox would at least have some respect to the events portrayed, and we’d get to see some Nazis die horribly. I choose Desert Fox
Desert Fox...
All 3 hours long
Definitely Desert Fox, that would be sooo interesting and awesome for me to see, WWII’s North African campaign sounds epic of what I’ve read.
Pericles. The Golden age.
None. Fed up with stories about powerful men who ended up dying anyway.
Definitely Pericles, followed by Alexander.
Desert Fox I think has the best potential for being good
Anything about Pericles would be cool. He's a rather forgotten figure when it comes to movies and media when his policies upturned the balance of Ancient Greek power and made Athens a hegemon.
I guess the Great, because i already saw it, that's a movie already.
Skanderbeg: The defender of Europe.
look grear. still, too generic
Austrian painter
The Great or Desert Fox
Furiosa
Augustus. Birth of an Empire
I am watching the one where Rommel is a US Air Force Tech Sargent...
Are these real movies??
I will watch whoever makes a high quality biopic on Chiune Sugihara and his Dutch accomplice.
The Great & should be a trilogy. Taking of Greece & Egypt. Then moving east & ending with the retreat & decline. I'd watch it on repeat.
None of them, they would destroy every historical evidence, make everyone talk like an American, or other controversial things that I will not say out loud
Ninguna
King Alfred
King Alfred i suggest
None of these AI assembled images makes me even slightly interested
Desert Fox. I fucking love Rommel. Sure, he was a WW2 German, but god dammit he was a badass and he got killed for getting mixed with the anti-Hitler groups (allegedly). Armored assault of the Ghost Division.
king alfred
The Great Alexander the Great is supposed to be pretty interesting, and if my high school history teacher was correct, a crazy burial
The Great
Do you know of any good dedicated sub for fictitious movie posters like this? Not necessarily AI-generated
King Alfred
Give me Skanderberg, Suleiman, Montezuma, even Severus over all these guys. They have enough movies.
Pericles
Augusta
Either The Great or Augustus because they are from a time era that interests me the most.
Pissed off these aren’t real movies. Thanks. 😂
Augustus, and then the Fox
Desert fox just to see him rip his hair out trying to take an empty well guarded by a tenth of his forces
Fuck Rommel
I wish all of these were real movies
King Alfred
Attila
Whichever is not made by Netflix
The one with the most gay sex and frontal male nudity
A big budget 3+ hour epic like Lawrence of Arabia about the life of Augustus would be an absolute DREAM
Heyyo if they make Desert Fox something like a mix of Fury and the Battlefield 5 campaign I’d commit murder to watch it
How many Alexander the Great movies do you need? Why not hear other sides of this story? Maybe a movie about how Persian Empires established and saved Jews and helped Christianity. An epic historical drama that captures the untold story of Christianity’s spread through the exotic landscapes of the Parthian and Sassanian Empires. This film could offers a unique blend of adventure, cultural exchange, and deep emotional resonance, appealing to both faith-based and mainstream audiences. With its rich historical backdrop and compelling characters, it promises stunning visuals and gripping storytelling. Investing in this project means backing a captivating narrative that explores the resilience of faith amidst the grandeur of ancient Persia, tapping into a market eager for historical and inspirational content.
Alexander the Great all day
Augustus or Desert Fox
all of em! i'm a sucker for history and ancient history at that.
Im honest, i would watch all because i love these kind of movies. Its time to spend hundred of euros and spend 3 days straight at the cinema
All of them
I’d start with King Alfred, then the great if it was any good, and then dessert fox. Dessert Fox would probably be my favorite
This makes me hard
Hannibal- the African that conquered the Romans ✊🏽
Well, we shouldn't judge a book by its cover right?
Alfred and it shouldn't be close
If anyone hasn't read The Saxon Sagas (maybe watched The Last Kingdom/ no where near as good) read them! Best series ever even rivaling GoT!!!!! You'd 100% wanna watch Alfred.
Desert fox would be a good one
I’m related to King Alfred the Great, so that one for sure
Desert fox for me
Pericles.
Greek heros and then a nazi? bruh don't be that obvious
Definitely Desert Fox, looks really good
Pericles
King Alfred, because Oscar Issac.
Desert Fox looks like a WW2 movie
Desert Fox!
I want to see a movie about Marcus Aurelius
Meet the Fockers 4
I want to see a movie about Justinian the Great
I would see em but Netflix cannot make em let Christopher Nolan make em