W... again...

When Alexander died, he had to wait 2328 years until a film told his life...
Genghis Khan died, and waited 738 years for Omar Sharif to do him justice...
Attila the Hun lay dormant for 501 years until his agent collected 10%...
and Vlad the Impaler was in the ground for 455 years before Hollywood came calling.

But lately, people haven't been waiting quite as long after death to bring these stories to the screen...

George S Patton was imortalised only 35 years after he died...
Winston Churchill was being played by Robert Hardy a mere 16 years after his passing...
Andy Kaufman had been seeing the "man on the moon" for only 15 years...
... and I'm sure there's already a Heath Ledger bio-pic on the way...