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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1317340, member: 19463"]I oppose any remakes of Roman historical fiction until they run out of original subjects based on about 100 other Roman stories worth the attention.  My first choice would be based on Julia Maesa who whold have been around for the 193 AD mess followed by the reign of her brother in law before you even got to the parts she played first hand in Elagabalus' rise and fall.  That is at least a two season mini-series.  I'd like to see a single movie on Probus which could show the dangers of telling guys with big knives that their services were no longer necessary because they had done a good job.  Why have we not had a Constantine the Great epic?  That is at least three seasons worth of good stories followed by another on the behavior of his sons after his death.   Nero saw a lot of good stuff in the I, Claudius saga but could star in his own right even if he had no part in the things leading to the fall of Claudius.  Valerian could be a good story even if it were written to star Shapur?  Hollywood has proven themselves unable to handle Alexander but there are many less well known figures with stories worth telling before beating the same old horse again and again.  Please! No more Commodus movies.[/QUOTE]