[Antoninus]

Why do they make movies about comic book characters when there’s so much real history that tell more fantastic but true stories?

That is so true. The South Koreans do both. They make comic books about their heroes (such as Admiral Yi Soon Shin of turtle-ship fame) and then make incredible TV series about them.

I would encourage western entertainment media to follow suit, but our entertainment mavens can't make historical works without saturating it with SJW cr@p and/or porn. They suck.

[Reily]

I saw that TV series! It’s unbelievably good!
You can get it off Amazon.

I have never understood why a movie have never been done on Justinian & Theodora! It would be a great story on the screen. High ranking Roman falls in love with a prostitute\actress later become Emperor & Empress. The Byzantines if anything were colorful, had the Roman sense of pageantry.

In fact you could do multiple movies! One with them as heroes & one with them as villains! Their actual lives were that multisided! (What would you expect they were late Antiquity/dark Age Emperor & Empress and successful rules! They have to be both!)