A lot of it is them talking in offices and hotel rooms. This is very cheap to film. It will also be the big problem with a film made from the story. Much of the story is dialogue. If they’re going to turn it into something that keeps the audience interested over a long time, they’re going to have to take a lot of liberties.
Disagree. You need scenes showing disasters, like the Tunnel scene and Project X. If its a 95% talk fest, then it cause a lot of people to yawn.
I was thinking that, too; the word used when a play is adapted into a movie is “stagy”—you get the idea that it’s just a filming of a theatrical performance. Under the wrong
hands, the same might apply to this book adaptation—just back and forth shots of characters doing dialogue. Music could be added, maybe some action shots while they talk
in the background, etc. but it could be tough.
I guess I missed it but on 6/1 someone did indeed post on FR that it was going to be filmed (and now filming is indeed underway):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2525199/posts
John Aglialoro has gone public with his latest project to film Atlas Shrugged: an independent production set to begin filming June 11. Aglialoro decided to go forward on his own after the latest venture with Lionsgate Studios collapsed early this year.
After 17 years of working with major studios, only to see projects peter out from studio delay, unworkable scripts, and balky stars, Aglialoro has taken the entrepreneurial helm. Working with screenwriter Brian Patrick O’Toole, he has completed a script covering the first part of Rand’s novel (through the run of the John Galt Line and its aftermath).
Aglialoro expects the film to be released by the first quarter of 2011. He currently projects a three-movie sequence, following the structure of the novel. He has engaged Paul Johansson as director. Locations have been booked and casting is nearly complete.
“There’s obviously a lot of risk in doing it this,” says Aglialoro, head of Cybex, the exercise-equipment company, and a trustee of The Atlas Society. “But taking risks for something you believe in—that’s what Atlas is all about. The strength of the project is what it’s always been: the power of Ayn Rand’s novel.”
So, a film trilogy...a la Lord of Rings, etc.