Why is there no big budget Hollywood film about George Washington?

[Aegon Spengler]

What reasons would you guess as to why there has never been an attempt at a big budget movie about George Washington?

You could say because of political correctness and his connections to slavery but it’s not like they made a movie about him in the 1950s, 1960, 70s, etc.

Hollywood has done Lincoln, plenty of stuff about Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Kennedy… they even had a movie where a fictional president turns into the hulk.

They made a movie about Patton where the first minute is just Patton standing there in front of a huge American flag saluting and then then next 5 minutes are just him giving a speech about how great America is and how important it is to kill Nazis…

They made a Napoleon movie, “master and commander” - a movie about ships from around the revolutionary era… the only big budget movie about the revolutionary war I can think of is the Mel Gibson film “The Patriot”, and George Washington doesn’t even appear in it as far as I recall.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Prolly cause of that gay ass wig

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Prolly cause of that gay ass wig

I wonder if that’s legit the reason, and the socks

 

[Sonny Qc]

Probablty cause of that slavery thing,

 

[Spam On Rye]

Idris Elba would be perfect.

 

[Stoic1]

Netflix casting would be incredible.

 

[Cole train]

Marvel to produce and pedro pascal as george

 

[SmoothPies]

The time for that movie to be made was around 2000-2006. That time has sadly passed

 

[Rhood]

Probably because of the limitations in runtime of condensing his life into 1 film. There's already a TV series based on his life that pretty much covers everything.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

What reasons would you guess as to why there has never been an attempt at a big budget movie about George Washington?

You could say because of political correctness and his connections to slavery but it’s not like they made a movie about him in the 1950s, 1960, 70s, etc.

Hollywood has done Lincoln, plenty of stuff about Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Kennedy… they even had a movie where a fictional president turns into the hulk.

They made a movie about Patton where the first minute is just Patton standing there in front of a huge American flag saluting and then then next 5 minutes are just him giving a speech about how great America is and how important it is to kill Nazis…

They made a Napoleon movie, “master and commander” - a movie about ships from around the revolutionary era… the only big budget movie about the revolutionary war I can think of is the Mel Gibson film “The Patriot”, and George Washington doesn’t even appear in it as far as I recall.

Denzel Washington should play George Washington. After all Denzel is a direct descendant of George

 

[ricc505]

Hollywood would ruin it. I'd rather they left it alone since they won't let us have anything nice

 

[syct23]

He’s probably just not that interesting.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Because he was fuck-ugly.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Netflix casting would be incredible.

 

[Mr. Shickadance]

He never existed hes just made up

 

[ModernMatt]

would it be him enjoying tea at the beginning...then hating tea at the end, not that interesting

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Because he was fuck-ugly.

lol well I’m sure William Wallace didn’t look like Mel Gibson

 

[surgeyou1]

Probably because they would have to portray him as a slave owner and that would get messy

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Probably because they would have to portray him as a slave owner and that would get messy

Hollywood doesn’t have to do anything. They have never cared about historical accuracy! They made an Australian guy a Spaniard in Gladiator and had him kill an emperor who definitely didn’t die like that.

They made Persians Orcs and monsters in 300…

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Complex dude. Owned slaves but walked away from power willingly.