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| July 24, 2006
| David Kelley/Ed Hudgins
Posted on 07/25/2006 7:11:02 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
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To: Ed Hudgins
geeze...you need a whole day for John Galt's speech....
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:12:56 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
To: Ed Hudgins
very cool. I don't agree with all of Rand's conclusions, but she definitely is pro-captialism, and her book "Atlas Shrugged" is an epic.
Good idea to make it a trilogy; the book is too massive to shrink into just one flick.
To: Ed Hudgins
To: Ed Hudgins
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:14:27 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Loose lips sink ships - and the New York Times really doesn't have a problem with sinking ships.)
To: Ed Hudgins
I'm sceptical Hollywood will do justice to the book. In fact, I expect them to sabotage the message.
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:15:53 AM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: Ed Hudgins
Starring Alec Baldwin, Hillery Clinton, Babs Striesand, Harry Belefonte and a host of Hollwierd luminaries. /sarc
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:17:15 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: SoFloFreeper
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.
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:18:34 AM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
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To: Don Corleone
They'll probably cast Helen Thomas as Dagny Taggart
To: Dubh_Ghlase
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:20:15 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
To: Ed Hudgins
Oaky, here's my nominmations:
Jodie Foster - Dagney Taggert Kiefer Southerland - Hank Rearden
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:20:41 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: highimpact
I'm not sure she'd be much worse than Jolie, actually
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:20:43 AM PDT
by
whatexit
To: Ed Hudgins
****yawn****
I've been reading about this movie almost since FreeRepublic got started.
Thanks, I'll read the book.
Again
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:21:08 AM PDT
by
Peter W. Kessler
(Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
To: r-q-tek86
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:21:48 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Ed Hudgins
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.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.
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:21:53 AM PDT
by
bigjoesaddle
("Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Ed Hudgins
I'm sorry to say that this is destined to be a great big yawner. While Ayn Rand is great philosophical reading (if somewhat tedious and pedantic), there is almost no way
Atlas can be translated to a visual medium without either sacrificing the soul of the tale or boring the audience to tears.
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.
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:22:08 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: jennyp; furball4paws; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Ichneumon
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:22:30 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The Enlightenment gave us individual rights, free enterprise, and the theory of evolution.)
To: r-q-tek86
Dagny Taggart as a mid-level manager in Amtrak trying to save the responsible government run railroad. < gag!>
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.
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:22:33 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Loose lips sink ships - and the New York Times really doesn't have a problem with sinking ships.)
To: Ed Hudgins
Does anyone else smell "Battlefield Earth Part 2" here?
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:24:29 AM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
To: KarlInOhio
I wonder how or whether that will be modernized? They could make it AIRLINES..........
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posted on
07/25/2006 7:24:29 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
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