Atlas PUKED!!!I look forward to the film
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> ... to be played by Angelina Jolie ...
Another epic in the tradition of Ishtar and Heaven’s Gate.
Whatever happened to Jolie’s Daniel Pearl film? It was released to great fanfare but seems to have just disappeared.
I am currently reading the book and in my minds eye I see Joan Allen playing the part of Dagny...it needs a thin lipped kind of gal.......(shrug) just MO
Since it’s Hollywood, they are probably still trying to hire Arnold to play the part of Atlas . . .
Should have been a miniseries on HBO or a 1-season series on FX.
I forsee a complete bastardization of the book’s message. The same way Verhoeven turned the society of “Starship Troopers” into a neofascist dystopia.
The bad news is that John Galt is replaced with Larry Craig.
Too bad they didn’t film this in Lauren Bacall’s heyday. She’s exactly what I pictured Dagney being like.
Atlas PUKED!!!I fully expect a pro-big government, socialist, collectivist re-imagining of Ayn Rand.
Gee, what’s the hurry? It’s only been 50 years or so. Besides, it written with a futuristic setting; 1965 or something like that. You know, diesel trains, phone booths that can access long distance operators, etc. Slow down!
(Just kidding. Still, I wonder how they’ll handle the “futuristic” aspects of the novel?)
Oddly, I just finished reading this book recently. Will the movie be 36 hours long?
Actually, I expect Galt’s Utopia to become a hippie commune and the evil politicians to become conservative Republicans.
If they had made this movie 50 years ago with Barbara Stanwick as Dagny, Gary Cooper as Hank, and Raymond Massey as Galt, it would be a classic today. Now it will be a joke, like the crapper I saw last night with Leo DiCrappio as Howard Hughes. The TV movie with Tommy Lee Jones as Howard was light years better. Note to Hollywood: Howard Hughes was not 5 feet tall!
I fear it will be “Atlas Shrugged” in name only. I don’t think this hollywood group is capable of comprehending Rands theme in the novel.
They should cast Hillary Clinton as Ivy Starnes.