Atlas Shrugged Movie to Begin Filming

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May 29, 2010

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 way,” 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.”
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It´ll be interesting to see how it works with a novel which explains its message almost entirely through tedious dialogue.
 
Todd said:
If this is the same film, then there's a discrepancy in the director. But I believe the one on IMDB is the same film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/


Either way, I hope they do the book justice and make a great film
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They won't. You know how I know they won't? Cause they decided to start the film WITHOUT ANY ACTORS. So they are doing everything last minute with random actors who will join the game right before production begins who probably never even read the book.

when ya start production, ya should usually, ya know, have actors.
 
As long as it won't be some big-budget, CGI-laden monstrosity starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, I'll be looking forward to the film's release.
 
BuddyRey said:
As long as it won't be some big-budget, CGI-laden monstrosity starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, I'll be looking forward to the film's release.
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I heard Jolie was supposed to be in it but not Brad Pitt? lol

I don't know why they would need CGI to make it.


And yah like Ozzy I suspect it won't be hot stuff. It will be interesting to see how the media (predictably) reacts to it.
 
BuddyRey said:
As long as it won't be some big-budget, CGI-laden monstrosity starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, I'll be looking forward to the film's release.
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nearly all films have some CGI, it's just how overdone and fake it looks.

Either way, I'd be fine if it had some big name actors in it so long as the original storyline was maintained...sadly, it could be VERY easily warped into a collectivist pro-union pro-leftist movie too if they wanted to...which would be an absolute atrocity against the original novel.
 
The movie will probably be really bad. This kind of book just can't be translated to film without it being extremely boring.
 
With all due honesty, has anyone actually finished the book? I think Moby and Atlas are two books that I can nvr finish.
 
low preference guy said:
Skipping the long John Galt Speech, yes.
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It is way too long, but if you skipped it you'd miss out on IMO the most important passage ever written - I didn't think anyone else understood this until I read that speech in Atlas Shrugged:
There have always been men of intelligence who went on strike, in protest and despair, but they did not know the meaning of their action. The man who retires from public life, to think, but not share his thoughts - the man who chooses to spend his years in the obscurity of menial employment, keeping to himself the fire of his mind, never giving it form, expression or reality, refusing to bring it into a world he despises - the man who is defeated by revulsion, the man who renounces before he has started, the man who gives up rather than give in, the man who functions at a fraction of his capacity, disarmed by his longing for an ideal he has not found - they are on strike, on strike against unreason, on strike against your world and your values. But not knowing any values of their own they abandon the quest to know - in the darkness of their hopeless indignation, which is righteous without knowledge of the right, and passionate without knowledge of desire, they concede to you the power of reality and surrender the incentives of their mind- and they perish in bitter futility, as rebels who never learned the object of their rebellion, as lovers who never discovered their love.
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Che said:
With all due honesty, has anyone actually finished the book? I think Moby and Atlas are two books that I can nvr finish.
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Check the audiobook version from your local library and listen to it in your car or wherever.
 
I thought Angelina Jolie would be good as Dagny Taggart. Brad Pitt would suck as Galt, though.

It could be great, could be awful. The fact that they're making it three films and not one is a good sign. Over the past 10 years, writers have gotten a lot better at adapting books into movies (just look at Lord of the Rings.)

Plus, with the Tea Party movement and all, I imagine a lot of people would go see it.

Che said:
With all due honesty, has anyone actually finished the book? I think Moby and Atlas are two books that I can nvr finish.
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I've read it 3 or 4 times. Couldn't put it down.

low preference guy said:
Skipping the long John Galt Speech, yes.
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But that's the best part!
 
FYI, Part 1 hits theaters 4/15 her's the trailer-http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/atlas-shrugged-movie-trailer
 
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