Atlas Shrugged

[billc]

According to Bighollywood.com, the movie version of Atlas Shrugged is in post production and should be finished by January 2011.

 

[Omar B]

I can't wait. Too bad it is being directed/written by a tv guy. I hope it turns out great but it could also be a mishandled disaster with a cheap tv look coutesy of One Tree Hill guy.

 

[Empty Hands]

Is it going to have a 2 hour long monologue in the middle?

 

[Omar B]

I heard a rumor that it is being broken into 2 movies. I will post in more detail later, gotta step back into a meeting in 5 mins.

 

[billc]

Peter Jackson was able to do the Lord of the Rings justice, so there is always hope. Does anyone know if the director had a real passion for the material, or was this just another movie to direct. It seems that when the director has a passion for the source material, Spiderman, Lord of the Rings for example the movies have a chance. When the director wants to do his interpretation of the source material, never having known it before he was picked to direct, it turns out mediocre at best.

 

[crushing]

Atlas Shrugged has been on my list of books to read for a while. I'd like to do so before seeing the movie. I wonder if the movie will capture the essence of what has put the book on the must read list. Unlike the director of the movie Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven, hopefully the director of Atlas Shrugged will actually read the book.

 

[billc]

Yeah, I loved starship troopers when I was a kid. In fact, I took it to basic training with me and it was confiscated during an inspection. I really hope they do a real version of that movie with someone who loved the book. With the special effects they have now, they could really do it right. Just imagine the mobile infantry on the big screen.

You know, You might want to get the audio version, un-abridged, if you can find it. That is the way I did it and it was pretty good.

 

[chrispillertkd]

According to Bighollywood.com, the movie version of Atlas Shrugged is in post production and should be finished by January 2011.

Do you have a direct link? I tried that web address but there was no site available.

Pax,

Chris

 

[billc]

Sorry, I am waiting for my brother to come over and show me the method to direct link. You may have to go to Breitbart.com and click on the Bighollywood tab at the top. They give you a link to the movie site as well.

 

[Omar B]

Here's a little video on the making of the movie. Yes the director has a passion for it, but he's still a TV actor from a bad teen drama on the WB (One Tree Hill), the type of show that's all melodrama. It's gonna be done in 2 parts it seems and I do so hope that the first part works as a film so we might have a chance of getting to see the rest, but it does have a cheap look to it.

My favorite book, my favorite author so I hope for nothing but the best ... but I'm still worried about it.

 

[Omar B]

Sorry, I am waiting for my brother to come over and show me the method to direct link. You may have to go to Breitbart.com and click on the Bighollywood tab at the top. They give you a link to the movie site as well.

Ever heard of cut and paste?

 

[Ken Morgan]

My favorite book, my favorite author so I hope for nothing but the best ... but I'm still worried about it.

Nice link thank you.
One of my favorite Authors, but I still think her best book was The Fountainhead
If they can make LOTR, they can make AS.

 

[Omar B]

When I was in high school I came up with a pretty decent way to get most of it into a 3 hour movie that could work.

Though I've said it before and I'll say it always, to adapt books properly (especially epics) the perfect medium is the mini series. AS as a 6 hour 3 part mini would get pretty much the whole thing in.

 

[Big Don]

The producers of “Atlas Shrugged” have just posted via their Facebook Fan Page the date of the USA theatrical release date. To see the release dateclick on over.
After nearly two decades of false starts, rights owner John Aglialoro greenlighted production on “Atlas Shrugged” (Part one of three) in June 2010 and is reporting that the picture is in the final stages of post-production and is slated to be completely finished by the end of January 2011.
The picture stars a cast of fresh, young actors including — photographed above — Taylor Schilling (Dagny Taggart) and Grant Bowler (Henry Rearden) who, along with Matthew Marsden, Graham Beckel and Edi Gathegi round out the lead stars in the motion picture directed by Paul Johansson from a screenplay by Brian O’Toole and Aglialoro. Harmon Kaslow and Aglialoro produced the motion picture.

 

[Big Don]

Apparently, it will be a Trilogy.

 

[billc]

Thomas Sowell is great, isn't he? His book, "Visions of the Anointed" is one of my favorites.

 

[CoryKS]

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, but I can't imagine how it could possibly translate into film. And a trilogy? No, thanks. Like EH said, the monologue would be like the entire third movie.

 

[Makalakumu]

Here's a little video on the making of the movie. Yes the director has a passion for it, but he's still a TV actor from a bad teen drama on the WB (One Tree Hill), the type of show that's all melodrama. It's gonna be done in 2 parts it seems and I do so hope that the first part works as a film so we might have a chance of getting to see the rest, but it does have a cheap look to it.

My favorite book, my favorite author so I hope for nothing but the best ... but I'm still worried about it.

I loved this book. It completely dovetailed into where I was in my life when I read it. One thing I'm doing to deflect any personal disappointment is to tell myself that the movie is just another person's interpretation of the book. It is not THE book. When I go to see it, it will be like a conversation about the book with another person, a conversation where I sit back and listen and take in their point of view.

 

[Omar B]

That is a very good way to look at it man. I do understand another person's interpretation, plus this is filtered through the screenwriters, director, cinematographer, actors and on and on. By the time a film gets to the general public it's quite the hodgepodge. That is unless you are Polanski, Kubrick, Spielberg, Scorsese, or one of the other greats.

I have a very definite idea of how I would like to see AS done, how it should look, play out, but I'm no film maker. Though I have seriously thought about getting into that field very seriously ... I'm a film fan with a literature degree, it's understandable I guess.

 

[granfire]

That is a very good way to look at it man. I do understand another person's interpretation, plus this is filtered through the screenwriters, director, cinematographer, actors and on and on. By the time a film gets to the general public it's quite the hodgepodge. That is unless you are Polanski, Kubrick, Spielberg, Scorsese, or one of the other greats.

I have a very definite idea of how I would like to see AS done, how it should look, play out, but I'm no film maker. Though I have seriously thought about getting into that field very seriously ... I'm a film fan with a literature degree, it's understandable I guess.

Pretty much what I try to tell my kid. You read a book you get to make your own movie in your head.

I do much better with movies I don't know the book to. (I actually passed on a movie though I was kind of anticipating it because I found the book to be soo bad)