Toward the end of the trailer, a woman (Dagny) tosses a drink in a man’s face. Francisco? Hope not. If that’s them, the producer’s grasp of the characters isn’t what it should be.
In the book, Rearden slapped Francisco. Great scene, conveyed character exquisitely.
And who’s Dagny threatening, if he double crosses her? Is that James? Doesn’t ring true at all.
I do think that Dagny is threatening James in that clip. I checked back to the scene I was thinking of, when she tells him that she’s leaving Taggart to form her own company to build the John Galt Line with Reardon metal to Colorado. He forces her to agree if it is not successful, she has make her leave of absence permanent, and if she IS successful, she has to sell the line back to Taggart at cost, not take a ‘windfall profit’ from it. She agrees, and then when he starts prattling on about having to get the approvals from Washington, Dagny finally gets angry and tells James he has to keep the ‘washington boys away from her, or else. I assume they decided to give her more of a verbal ‘edge’ here, when in the book that edge was just explained by a violent look in her face. The passage in the book explains quite eloquently, but in the movie the audience might not grasp it just visually.
JMHO, BTW...
Not sure about the scene with the drink in the face, we’ll have to see.