 Taylor Schilling (plays Dagny Taggart) |
 Paul Johansson (plays John Galt) |
Posted on 11/11/2010 5:41:10 PM PST by Shooter 2.5
An Atlas Shrugged movie has been off and on again many times. Hope it is on and done right. A trilogy would be the best way to present the book without massive editing.
There certainly are many great potential cinematic scenes in the book; the first run of the train over the bridge of Reardon Steel; the destruction of the railroad tunnel; Dagny’s crash landing in Galt’s Gulch; Dagny meeting the ‘bum’ and former employee of the 20’th Century Motor Car company on board her railcar.
Since the book was written in the late 50’s, and does involve a lot of trains and train travel; it would be kind of cool if they gave the move a sort of retro-future look of the 1950’s.
The look and feel I would like to see if future dystopia—everything used to be modern and sleek, but socialism has burnt out the infrastructure and the people.
Then (Rand would scream from the grave but) make the dialog more conversational—keeping the words is fine—but let the people talk like people not brainwashed robots.
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Taylor Schilling (plays Dagny Taggart) |
Paul Johansson (plays John Galt) |
Maybe John Leguizamo as Francisco... ;)
Well, shooting wrapped in July; it's now in post-production, including editing, and you can't get much closer than that. Nolte further says,
As of now the plan is to release part one of “Atlas Shrugged” in theatres sometime during the second quarter of 2011 and start production on the second part the following fall.
I thought Angelina Jolie was set to play Dagney. What happened?
I hope it’s not some liberal playing Hugh Akston. Clint is probably a little old for me.
They jack with it. It’ll be ruined for anyone that likes the book and pointless to anyone who hasn’t read it.
If Clint wants to play you (and he very well might), for as little as they're probably paying -- they should let him play you. Just sayin'. ';^D
Actually the casting looks pretty good.
I don’t know any of those people, so I don’t have any preconceived biases of their politics.
They look to be all pretty young, or maybe I’m so old now that it just seems that way.
I hope they pull it off as a cast, and don’t screw it up.
When is it due in theaters?.............
Au Contraire!
By not having any seen any of these people, you won’t have any preconceptions as to their politics or bias to any of them, so you can enjoy the movie......
It's supposed to be in "the second quarter of 2011," which I guess means some time in April, May or June.
Katherine Hepburn was a socialist in real life so I don’t think she would have taken the part unless she could rewrite it to make Dagny one as well.
I just read the article and you are right. He is a clown!
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