8 Historical Scandals Which NEED To Be Made Into Films

Captain William Kidd was a Scottish sailor and socialite who settled in New York city in the late seventeenth century. Initially, Kidd was the toast of the town, quickly becoming friends with prominent persons within politics and society.

However, Kidd also had a history of piracy, and had once enjoyed a successful career as a pirate. Unfortunately for Kidd, however, piracy became outlawed during his lifetime, and he soon had to switch sides.

During the 1690s, Kidd set out to hunt pirates - however, Kidd's skill set was rather limited in this regard and things soon turned ugly. Kidd's crew began to resent their captain and threatened mutiny.

Forced by crew grumblings and money shortages to return to piracy, Kidd once more brought terror to the seven seas. While Kidd was a far more efficient pirate than he was pirate hunter, the law did eventually catch up with the socialite-turned-privateer.

Kidd's trial, which historians now understand to have been rigged, lasted only one day. Merely a fortnight later, Kidd was hanged for piracy and murder. Worse still, his rotting dead boy was left near the Thames in order to deter other pirates.

We would love to see a cinematic adaptation of Kidd's life: a film which traced his early days as influential Scot in colonial New York, his attempts to follow law, and then his eventual return to piracy would be a fascinating (and likely gory) hit.