re: Historic figures/events you'd like to see a movie made for.

If done a certain way, I've always thought that a movie about John Jacob Astor could be terrific. Astor was one of the first mega rich in America and found significant profit in the opium trade. I believe that so long as you don't get a super-lib director who makes the film out to be some statement piece on the evils of capitalism, it could make for a hell of an interesting story.