[dagw]

Any Tesla movie would probably be depressing as fuck.

Kid genius comes to America to work for his hero, but decides to strike out on his own to change the world after a disagreement over money. Ends up failing miserably and being crushed by his former hero and employer. Slowly goes insane and dies poor and largely forgotten.

[cafard]

Ah, but Hollywood seems to love its engineers and scientists best as victims: see Turing and Nash. And for that matter, you could count The Social Network as the same kind of narrative: has the millions, but not the girl.

[Vexs]

No worse than the Turing movie with Bernard Cumbersnatch. Tragedy is great movie material.

[Zuider]

"Bernard Cumbersnatch"? I take it that you are referring to celebrated British actor, Humperdinck Rumblebum? Or was it perhaps, Twiddleplink Cucumberpatch? I can never get these British names quite right.

[01Michael10]

Don't forget Tesla had zero known love interests and never married (possibly gay).

[Zuider]

Gay like Alan Turing? Don't worry, given Hollywood's penchant for choosing drama over historical verisimilitude, Thomas Edison could be recast as a fading opera diva on whom Tesla had a boyhood crush.

[angdis]

That actually sounds like very interesting fodder for a hit movie.