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I'm looking forward to watching it.
I'm still dying to know in what year this "futuristic" novel written in the 50's will be set. Will it be re-adjusted to current times?
From Wikipedia:
Atlas Shrugged is a film in active development by Baldwin Entertainment Group and Lions Gate Entertainment. Based on Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, a two-part draft screenplay written by James V. Hart is now being fully developed by writer-director Randall Wallace.
Angelina Jolie has been confirmed to play the role of Dagny Taggart, and Brad Pitt is rumored to be cast as John Galt. Both are fans of Rand's works. It is projected that Atlas Shrugged will be released as a trilogy, with staggered release-dates for each of the three films. Lions Gate Entertainment has picked up worldwide distribution rights. The first film is expected to be released in 2008. [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_(film)
I'll pass, Randian economics are Darwinistic economics.
Good luck on the project though...
Selfish (free) individual bump.
I despise her as an actress, but I have to admit that Angelina Jolie could make a respectable Dagney. Of course, the burning question is Who is John Galt?
I'm interested to see how Hollyweird will take a well-known major libertarian treatise, antithetical to everything that Hollyweird stands for (Marxism), and interpret it in a way that bolsters Marxism as the proper world view. And trust me, they will.
"the bible of selfishness?" That's not what I got out of it when I read it (admittedly quite a while ago). Some do project their desires on others, or others' work, and I think that is the case here.
LOL...nothing like an objective review! The Left's philosophy, as witness Hillary! and French candidate Segolene Royal's campaigns, is the bible of universal dependency, which is just fine with The Observer Guardian.
There, fixed it. Damned liberal punk writers.
OK, but who is John Galt?
"America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way."
[Ayn Rand]
I stopped reading right there.
\ To the author, Howard Zinn is probably pretty right of center.
Atlas Dined: An Ayn Rand Spoof
Excerpt:
When their dinner arrived, neither dared look at one another. They had both ordered rib eye steak with asparagus and baked potato. He had requested his own basket of rolls, and she knew he had done it to mock her. He could eat more rolls than she, and she hated herself for letting him, for caring, for not being able to hide her shame, in the pleasure it gave her to submit, to eat only one roll while he ate four.
Sounds like a cult classic in the making
Like most condemnatory articles about the work of Ayn Rand, there's no indication and evidence the writer ever attempted to read the original work himself -- but merely found the 1,200 pages "daunting," and so relied on envious critics to undermine its worthiness.
It's boilerplate "Ayn Rand is not worth the effort to understand, and so read the dismissive articles I've read as all you need to know."
My god, will the mainstream media ever write about something they really know about -- in their authoritative, pretentious AP style?
I enjoyed the book overall, but damn me for being a little more compassionate than Rand. For instance, if she had developed mental illness or some such thing, and fell down, would she really have said "My tough luck, let me fall by the wayside", or would she have hoped someone would have helped her out?
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