Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Vandal Savage the Movie, which I think a couple of posters mentioned.
Think about it, a huge historical rip-roaring yarn about an immortal psychopath who starts out as basically Conan the Barbarian, but who later becomes Alexander the Great and helps found the Library of Alexandria and so on, and then he becomes Julius Caesar or Augustus and founds the Roman Empire.
It could be awesome, there's a lot of neat ideas a film-maker can tap in, the fact that there's no real difference between civilization and barbarianism, that they're the same thing, that historical figures like Alexander, Caesar, and Augustus who are lionized and celebrated are actually glorified psychos.
To be honest, I actually think Vandal Savage should have been the villain of the Justice League movie. Or the next best thing, make him a villain for Wonder Woman. Because thematicallly, Vandal Savage and Wonder Woman would work well against one another since he can claim that he represents the reality of the civilization of which Diana is a representative of, and so present an interest challenge and dynamic with her.
As for who I'd cast as Savage...I'd pick Willem Dafoe, or Gary Oldman (because he kind of played a similar character in Bram Stoker's Dracula), or if you want someone outside the box -- Leonardo DiCaprio...tell Leo he gets to be a character who in one movie is a barbarian from the steppes who becomes Alexander then a Roman general and then a Viking and after that maybe Christopher Columbus, and he'd probably be pretty interested in that.