10 STUPIDLY Obvious Movies Hollywood Is Ignoring

6. Horatio Nelson Jackson

Alright, I'll level with you. This whole article is just an elaborate slice of misdirection designed to let me make a pitch - nay, a plea - to any reading movie producers. Please make the Horatio Nelson Jackson movie, and please let either the Coen Brothers or Armando Iannucci write it. It's one of the most p*ss-funny stories in American history.

Long story short, Horatio Nelson Jackson was a man who had just taken a bet. He wagered that a man could drive from one side of America to the other without spectacularly dying along the way, and he was going to prove it. The major hurdles to all of this were that it was 1903, and cars were little more than a giant engine with a seat strapped to the top, he'd never actually driven one before, and also there was no map.

So, he set off from San Franciso with nothing but a second-hand Vermont, a young engineer he coerced at short notice, and the only spare tyre available in the entire city. The two-month-long journey remains one of the biggest farces automotive folklore and would make for the funniest film you've seen in years.

If you're still not sold then it stars a dog called Bud who they just, sort of, find on their way and need to give aviation goggles to.