Which Chess player do you think there should be a movie about?

You could do a movie on the Polgars. That would be cool! Have Vivaldi playing in the background while the sisters impress the chessworld. You could switch the score to Wagner when Dear Bobby visits

I would like to re-cast this discussion to "why is BradStone talking?"

Let's make a movie about BradStone19 trolling the internet.

Starring Morphy as President.

Obviously, a complete moron can become President of the United States. It appears to be a figurehead title.

But really, to call this topic "ridiculous", only demonstrates that you have not been to the forums much. This is actually an interesting topic. Much better than your interest in serial killers.

There are some plotlines involving chess that Hollywood could do that could be made into successful movies (read: complete BS, historically): Morphy as a Confederate secret agent in Europe; Alekhine as a secret infiltrater of the Nazis for Stalin; CHOD Alexander and the breaking of ENIGMA (a kind of a WW2 James Bond thing, as Alexander and ENIGMA is a true story).  You could do as farse several tournaments or matches without deviating far from the historical record, not to mention any number of "Pride and Sorrow" -type bio-pics (Morphy, Steinitz, Pillsbury, Ruebenstein, Fischer, even Ivanchuk, though it would be difficult to do him, 'cause he doesn't seem to consider being crazy as a bad thing).  Hollywood will not touch these until movies about chess generate a profit--so for Fischer you get a guy named after a kitty-cat instead of Nicholas Cage, who could do serious justice to the role.

It's about time Hollywood started making quality dramatic films again. Plenty of proof right here in this thread that they aren't doing so now. The belief that a movie needs explosions or aliens or some other special effect to be good is a sad commentary on our society and our film industry.

A really good movie doesn't need any of that.

+1!

Well, Hollywood had already had its brief affair with chess:
Hollywood Chess
Hollywood Chess II

I wonder if Herman Steiner was related to Max Steiner, the composer of many famous movie scores for films like "Gone with the Wind" and "Now, Voyager"?

Did Max also emigrate from Slovakia?

From wikipedia, they were both born in Austria-Hungary. But a relationship is not mentioned that I can see.

So, they came from the same region?  about the same time?
I'd never heard of Herman having siblings, but it's entirely possible.

Lasker and Tal

I think it will take an independant to make the first successful chess movie, like "Billy Jack" making martial arts-themed movies respectable.  Maybe a Sherlock Holmes-type, using chess instead of 7% solutions and "Turkish" tobacco (for those who've read the stories), based on a Nicolas Rossolimo lifestyle; multi-lingual, brown belt, waiter, cabbie, musician, grand master.

How about a movie about BradStone's parents grounding him for breaking the toaster? Or, BradStone confused about the microwave oven? BradStone runs away from home trying to find himself in the neighbor's garage? BradStone discovering rocks? BradStone inventing paper towels?

Anybody mention Borislav Ivanov yet? Him and Bobby Fischer are the two that come to mind.

"Bradstone learns how to do laundry on his own" The Movie

Ruy López de Segura or Philidor.

I'm not sulking, I just think my BradStone movie ideas are better than your shapeshifting vampire films.

Here's the scene: a disillusioned chess master (Bobby Jim) retreats to the mountains to find himself, quitting the game he loves.  A group of Pawnee chess students try to enter a local tourney and are told that only there's only black and white in chess--no red.  They protest, and get covered with flour and chocolate syrup (so they can play), when in comes Bobby Jim, who takes off his boots, goes into some kind of rant, does a 20 blindfold blitz simul, and kicks everyone's butt.  Whaddaya think?