http://www.atlassociety.org/cth-13-2311-Atlas_movie_5_29_2010.aspx
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…
Yeah, well, we’ll see. As influential and depressingly prophetic as Atlas Shrugged is, it’s a hugenormous plodding unfilmable monstrocity filled with hideously long monologues that whack you upside the head with The Message.
Perhaps more filmable, and certainly more enjoyable, would be L. Neil Smith’s “The Probability Broach.” I’d pay good money to see a good movie version of that.
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I’m hoping for something as odd as “The Fountainhead”, which is one of my favorite strange films; particularly the look in Gary Cooper’s face as he delivers the trial speech, and you can see he’s thinking “Now what the hell did I just say? I can’t understand a word of this stuff.”
I think women would get a lot better quality dates if they attacked men with riding crops more often. Daring to talk to a woman should always entail the element of risk if it is to mean anything, and the threat of a really sound thrashing will keep the riff-raff away. ;-D
Amen to the post. Now Pat’s comment, umm, what?
Keep in mind, I’ve known Pat in excess of a decade via sci.space newsgroups, and while I’ve no idea what he looks like or how old he is or any of that, one thing I am sure of is that he’s quite in love with what he believes to be his mighty wit. And thus you get a whole lot of seriously tangential gibberish.
The moon is a harsh mistress might not make an inferior movie, but i think it stands a better chance of being made than smiths work.
Hmm…. As a man, I’m opposed to the idea of arming women with riding crops. However, I know some women who would love the idea, May I quote you, Pat?
I always wanted to see a movie of “A Fall of Moondust.” Also, “Rocket Ship Galileo” direct from the book.
One of my first thoughts on reading “The Probability Broach” was that it would make one hell of a fun movie.
In the book of course, the riding crop attack is the prelude to Dominique* getting raped by Howard Roark, although Ayn Rand said the rape was “by engraved invitation”.
The wonderful over-the-top phallic imagery as the shirtless and sweating Roark is busy cutting rock out of a quarry with a pneumatic hammer when this all happens is one of the film’s special treats.
(another is Dominique throwing the heavy sculpture out of the window of the high-rise building without first checking to see if there is anyone down there who might get their head caved in by it.)
I’d love to have known the reaction of the people from Hell’s Kitchen who get their tenements razed to make way for the new skyscraper, only to find out the architect has blown up the place they were going to move to because someone had the temerity to put balconies on its buildings so they could actually get some fresh air for once in their lives.
I’d feel so safe inside this building in a high wind:
http://www.cinema-scope.com/images/getty_hue110_25.jpg
The place should be named The Domino Building.
Just like Roark gets blown over by Dominique and gives a windy speech, so The Domino Building can get blown over at some point in the movie.
* A real subtle name-with-meaning there, don’t you think?
H.G. Wells used that same laying-it-on-with-a-trowel subtle naming style in the movie “Things To Come” where people have to live in cities that are built in caves. Someone really has to look into why fiction authors with a political message to inflict on the world hate the outdoors.