Most true stories aren't interesting enough to justify making a movie about them

It seems like whenever some beloved celebrity grows old or dies, some studio starts planning a biopic about them. The problem is that while the influence of said celeb might be undeniable, most of their lives don't make for an interesting film. For a lot of them, the story is always just that they wanted to be a musician/actor from a young age, faced adversity but made it against all odds and became a superstar. Bonus points if a loved one died along the way to add some drama. The only thing you can usually look forward to is the actor spending months learning to impersonate the subject and then winning an Oscar the next year.The best true stories are the ones that make you go, "Shit, that really happened?" For example, I watched a show called The Offer about how they made The Godfather. Apparently the writer Mario Puzo got into a fight with Sinatra over the character of Johnny Fontaine, which I couldn't believe really happened. Or how about a story of a bear that OD'd on coke.That last one was a jokeAlso, the fact that so many biopics have to embellish details or straight up lie for dramatic purposes, shows that the original story wasn't that good to begin with. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/iISW035