Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall portrays Thomas Cromwell in a sympathetic light while depicting More as fanatical and rigid in his thinking. This proved controversial.
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Aside from dying for his beliefs, Thomas More is probably most famous for authoring the book Utopia—an imaginary depiction of an ideal state in which wealth is shared by everyone. In fact, this book later earned More homage from the Soviet Union—an officially atheist country.
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Orson Welles dressed in robes that were modeled exactly on Cardinal Wolsey's, and even took eye drops to make his eyes look as red as Wolsey's apparently were.
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