Posted on 07/25/2006 7:11:02 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
Karen and Howard Baldwin spoke at The Atlas Society's recent Summer Seminar about plans for their film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged.
The principals in Baldwin Entertainment Group (BEG), producer of the 2004 Oscar-winning "Ray," appeared in a 90 minute panel session on July 7 with TAS board member John Aglialoro, who holds the screen rights to the Ayn Rand novel and will be co-executive producer with Howard Baldwin, the company’s president and CEO. Baldwin and Aglialoro confirmed earlier reports that BEG will collaborate with Lionsgate, the studio that produced last year’s Oscar winner, "Crash”; the final contract was signed just days earlier. Lionsgate will provide funding for production and handle distribution. They also confirmed that the goal is for a three-part adaptation, like "Lord of the Rings." Only that length, Baldwin said, would give sufficient scope to tell Ayn Rand's long, complex story. The current project is for Part I, which will cover roughly the first third of the novel, with an expected budget of $40 million or more. “We want to make sure it is done well so that the second and third movies can be made.” Among the other studios that expressed interest in the project, he added, Lionsgate stood out because of its enthusiasm for completing the trilogy.
With Lionsgate on board, the project is on “a very aggressive path toward production,” with filming to begin as early as April 2007. While there is still a chance of completing the film in time for a release later that year, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the novel, a 2008 release is more likely....
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geeze...you need a whole day for John Galt's speech....
Good idea to make it a trilogy; the book is too massive to shrink into just one flick.
Who is John Galt?
Who will be John Galt?
I'm sceptical Hollywood will do justice to the book. In fact, I expect them to sabotage the message.
Starring Alec Baldwin, Hillery Clinton, Babs Striesand, Harry Belefonte and a host of Hollwierd luminaries. /sarc
I just hope that they don't try to "update" it to incorporate a more progressive attitude. They could get Alec Baldwin to play Galt. Have Jim Taggert and his friends succeed in creating a perfect society after all the "exploiters" are gone.
GRRRR... I just have a bad feeling about how they're gonna play this. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
They'll probably cast Helen Thomas as Dagny Taggart
Are you John Galt? Am I?
Jodie Foster - Dagney Taggert Kiefer Southerland - Hank Rearden
I'm not sure she'd be much worse than Jolie, actually
****yawn****
I've been reading about this movie almost since FreeRepublic got started.
Thanks, I'll read the book.
Again
Jim Taggert - John Kerry
Fantastic! I was never for a movie because of the size of A.S., but three movies should work. Actually, a mini series a week long three hours a night would have been better, but this is damn good.
For this to succeed, it will require a filmaker of incredible talent, to know what parts of the book he can excise and still tell the story. I can't think of anyone in Hollywood I'd trust with that task.
Bump
Even when I first read it the idea of cross country passenger railroads was hopelessly out of date. I wonder how or whether that will be modernized? Or will they just keep the railroads and not try to explain them.
Does anyone else smell "Battlefield Earth Part 2" here?
They could make it AIRLINES..........
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