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Atlas Shrugged Movie to Begin Filming!
The Atlas Society - The Center for Objectivism ^ | May 29, 2010 | Edward Hudgins

Posted on 06/01/2010 7:14:16 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins

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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: atlasshrugged; aynrand; hollywood; objectivism; theatlassociety
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1 posted on 06/01/2010 7:14:16 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
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To: Ed Hudgins

But the film will have different bad guys I am sure.


2 posted on 06/01/2010 7:16:39 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: Ed Hudgins

I’ll believe it when I see it


3 posted on 06/01/2010 7:17:39 AM PDT by downwdims (It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority)
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To: Ed Hudgins
This is going to suck, and the director's little monologue from the article proves it. Hollywood can't make this movie any more than Count Dracula could produce Sister Act - they don't understand the mindset or the mentality in the slightest!
4 posted on 06/01/2010 7:18:09 AM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: domenad

You’re absolutely right.

Two words: Starship Troopers


5 posted on 06/01/2010 7:20:16 AM PDT by delapaz
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To: domenad

I’m thinking you’re probably right.


6 posted on 06/01/2010 7:20:17 AM PDT by kimmie7 (THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
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To: Ed Hudgins

this is gonna be Rollerball II (with a little bit of V for Vendetta and Stop Loss thrown in for good measure)


7 posted on 06/01/2010 7:21:07 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: delapaz

Have you seen Starship Troopers 3?


8 posted on 06/01/2010 7:21:40 AM PDT by max americana
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To: Ed Hudgins

“Actresses who have expressed interest in the role and are reading the script include Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightly, Julia Roberts, and Charlize Theron. Randall Wallace, who wrote the current version of the script, is a strong possibility as director.”

Good grief...


9 posted on 06/01/2010 7:22:25 AM PDT by jessduntno (If someone calls me a racist I tell them, "you're just saying that because I'm white.")
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To: Ed Hudgins
It will be interesting to see the final product. Will they dumb it down? Will they water it down? Rand's atheistic philosophy can come off selfish and mean to some people.

Libertarianism is a hard thing to explain (Rand Paul and Civil Rights), and Rand's Objectivism even more so.

I've never been much of a fan of her philosophy. I always thought is was Nietzsche repackaged for a new generation. I am not knocking her. I think she has done much to champion the cause of freedom, liberty and personal responsibility.

Ironically, I think a dumbed down version would actually help the libertarian-constitutional conservative cause more than a faithful version would.

Just one man's opinion...

10 posted on 06/01/2010 7:23:45 AM PDT by Silverfiddle
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To: GeronL

OK, who’s going to play Dagney? My vote would be for Ann Coulter.


11 posted on 06/01/2010 7:23:47 AM PDT by fwdude (It is not the liberals who will destroy this country, but the "moderates.")
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To: Ed Hudgins
Long ago I watched "Fountainhead" with Gary Cooper. It was stiff, stilted, and probably one of the worst movies Cooper ever made. Having read a lot about Ayn Rand and how much of her life seemed to have been spent living out values opposite to her philosophy, like creating a semi-totalitarian cult of the personality for herself, I have the feeling that she micro-managed the movie and micro-directed the actors into absolute, bitter, raving frustration, the result being a disaster of a movie. I certainly hope this effort turns out better. I'll definitely have to read Atlas Shrugged for the fourth time (move than I've ever read any other book) before seeing the movie.
12 posted on 06/01/2010 7:23:53 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: delapaz

I was going to add: Starship Troopers 3 is probably the most subliminally Christian, in your face anti-hippie/peacenik movie in the past 10 years...

But on Galt film, I will have to see the trailer first. It’s like anticipating the Red Dawn movie coming out.


13 posted on 06/01/2010 7:25:14 AM PDT by max americana
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This is great news. Glad they are not trying to squeeze it into 3 or 4 hours.

Most of the general public has never read the book. Too thick I suppose. If the movie is done right a lot of people will be exposed to some new concepts. They may actually start to understand what is going on in our nation today. Scary thought for the regime.

14 posted on 06/01/2010 7:25:40 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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To: jessduntno
Actresses who have expressed interest in the role and are reading the script include Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightly, Julia Roberts, and Charlize Theron.

Reading for the part of John Galt are Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg.

15 posted on 06/01/2010 7:26:28 AM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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To: delapaz

RH ping.


16 posted on 06/01/2010 7:26:37 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Ed Hudgins

If Hollywood has it’s way, anyone who goes ‘Galt’ will be:

1) Racist
2) GOP members
3) Exploitative capitalists
4) Sarah Palin followers
5) Christians
6) A believer in the US Constitution
7) a Bitter clinger
8) Rednecks Rubes like the ‘Deliverance’ mountain men
9) Veterans mentally scarred from Iraq
10) Homophobes


17 posted on 06/01/2010 7:26:58 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: jessduntno

What are you bothered about?


18 posted on 06/01/2010 7:27:15 AM PDT by Misterioso
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To: Ed Hudgins

I wonder if it runs at the same time as Bioshock.


19 posted on 06/01/2010 7:27:58 AM PDT by Tribune7 (It is immoral to claim the tea parties to be racist)
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To: Silverfiddle
It will have to be "dumbed down" considerable, both in scope, because of the massiveness of the novel, and ideology, because of the reasons you mentioned. Galt's speech at the end makes this obvious.

And yes, I think the liberals/atheists would LOVE Galt's disparaging of religion.

20 posted on 06/01/2010 7:28:41 AM PDT by fwdude (It is not the liberals who will destroy this country, but the "moderates.")
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