With 'Atlas Shrugged,' Hollywood May Have its First Anti-Bailout Movie

Risky Biz Blog ^ | 1 April 2009 | Steven Zeitchik

[fella]

Who should play the various characters(politicians and actors(they're all actors)) in this movie, if it gets made.

[prismsinc]

I predict, if the movie stays true to the book, and is done well, this film will be one of Hollywood’s hits of the decade

[SJSAMPLE]

I think Tom Selleck would make a GREAT Hank Reardon.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Please, please please - NOT Julia Roberts...

[avacado]

No to Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts! Full blown libtards! It would be impossible to watch.

[SJSAMPLE]

If it stays true to the book, people will walk out of the movies, particularly during John Galt’s famouse speech ;)

Ayn Rand really, really needed an editor.

If they can keep the oratories to a minimum, a three-hour movie would be PERFECT.

Maybe four, with an old-style intermission.

[avacado]

"Although it was written a half-century ago, producers say that the book’s themes of individualism resonate in the era of Obama, government bailouts and stimulus packages..."

Okay... this is a bit off-topic but I love that above sentence. For obvious reasons but also for a more subtle reason. The author unconsciously tied Obama to government bailouts (aka welfare) and non-individualism. That is going to be Obama's legacy!

[cripplecreek]

According to Baldwin entertainment, they’re looking at Pitt and Jolie in lead roles.

http://www.baldwinent.com/

[B-Chan]

The Fountainhead is one of the greatest comedic films ever made. The infamous "Gary Cooper's Jackhammer" scene will have you in tears of laughter. I can't wait to see Charlize Theron in a black cape and cigartte holder expositing her way through Rand's turgid Atlas Shrugged dialog. LOL!

[GovernmentShrinker]

Indeed. If it stayed true to the book (which I’ve never read due to it’s insane length), it would be at least a week long. This is likely to be one of the rare cases where book-based movie is much better than the book.

[Brett66]

Hollywood making a pro-capitalism movie? I’ll believe it when I see it.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Oh, please ... NOT Angelina Jolie. I can’t stand looking at her face with those obtrusive lips. She is just so NOT Dagny.

[fella]

Alll Gore should play Dr. stadler and Bwarny Frwank should play Wesley Mooch.

[cowboyway]

Angelina Jolie ....... Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts and Anne Hathaway.

I'm gonna hate to see any of these libtards play Dagny............

[SJSAMPLE]

I’m re-reading it for the fifth time.
By now, I’ve learned to skim over the long oratories.

I remember when Ragnarok (the Norweigian shipping guy) catches Hank Reardon the street and begins a conversation, all the while the police are chasing him.

FIVE PAGES.

Ayn Rand was probably the inspiration of the famouse Seinfeld “yada, yada, yada” skit.

[Hegemony Cricket]

How about Cote de Pablo to play Dagny?

[cripplecreek]

It sounds like Jolie and Pitt are just hopes of Baldwin entertainment.

[Trod Upon]

The story will be mangled into a lesbo-feminazi propaganda piece.

[y6162]

Che was 4 hours. Even the lefties wouldn’t sit through that.

I think the Shrugged speeches can be condensed and the deterioration of the economy and society shown succintly. Movies are about visuals, not long speeches.

It would be fabulous to satirize the dilitantes of the left as well as the harden commies of the Democrats using recognizable impersonators.

[Dooderbutt]

How about Angie Harmon?

I hate to admit it, but I haven't read Atlas Shrugged. I'm on Amazon.com right now buying it, though!