It would make for a fantastic epic, but I don’t know if you could properly tell everything that needed to be told in a a two or even three hour film. There’s a lot of needed story setup to the Battle off Samar.
Sigh. I know. Funny, most Americans know about Midway or even Coral Sea, but you get blank stares on Leyte Gulf from most.
I think a five part HBO series would be pretty good...