Yuck: "Atlas Shrugged" Begins Filming

[Ratty]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/17333/-atlas-shrugged-begins-filming

Entrepeneur John Aglialoro scored the film rights to the work back in 1992 but attempts to adapt the 1100-page property have encountered numerous problems and false starts over the years. The likes of Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron and Faye Dunaway have also been attached at one point or another.

As a result, a fed up Aglialoro is proceeding along his own agenda and is independently financing a June 11th production start in Los Angeles on the first in a quadrilogy of features based on the objectivism-spouting property.

John Aglialoro: Number 10 on Forbes list of richest executives. Bet he's a teabagger.

[Orrex]

1. Hollywood Yawned.

[TheManInTheMac]

13. I smell a new *Battlefield Earth* in the making. n/t

[Donnachaidh]

27. from your lips to God's ears... fingers crossed. n/t

[gmoney]

34. More like a new "Left Behind"

Will probably star some C-listers like Stephen Baldwin and Victoria Jackson, have shitty production values, and a godawful screenplay.

Will have to do like Glenn Beck did for his "movie" -- rent the theaters for a fee, then charge some outlandish ticket price for the "exclusive event."

Then straight to DVD.

[Taverner]

2. John Galt is a Serial Killer

I have proof

[JuniperLea]

3. I loved that book...

It's a novel... it's not real. The ending really got to me... but not enough to think this book was anything other than fiction.

I have more respect for Trekkies than I do Randies.

[Taverner]

8. At least Trek was a utopia

Randistan was just one big Bully State

[arcane1]

4. A quadrilogy?

It would take two full-length movies just to cover that awful and painfully-long radio broadcast.

[Arctic Dave]

5. Filming it would be easy. Just have someone screaming, "ME ME ME ME ME ME"!

For three hours.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. LOL

[Occulus]

6. See, now someone HAS to turn the game "Bioshock" into a film

It's Randian Objectivism carried to its logical extreme. That, and the whole "falling apart underwater Art Deco utopia" theme is some GREAT eye candy.

[proteus_lives]

10. I would much prefer that to Atlas Shrugged.

[Ratty]

12. *Smile*

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230526/

[villager]

16. Would you kindly...

...elaborate on that?

My son loved that game, and while I didn't play it, I sort of kibbitzed with him over the couple days he was immersed in it, watching it unfold -- movie-like -- i.d.'ng the soundtrack songs for him, etc...

[Ignis]

35. LOL! My wife picked up that phrase from the game.

She uses it when requesting I complete a chore I'd rather not do. :D

[SemiCharmedQuark]

21. That game was awesome!

The sequel was good too.

[Poll_Blind]

7. LOL, good luck with that Mr. Crazy! n/t

PB

[Xipe Totec]

9. I loved it... I was much better than Cats... I'm going to see it again... and again... nt

[yella_dawg]

11. They're making a movie...

about the dullest book ever written? Webster's Collegiate has a more engaging plot.

[Johonny]

14. can't wait for the Battlefield Earth like reviews

[wtmusic]

15. No self-respecting actor would go near that dialogue

but best wishes John, hope you lose lots of money.

[underpants]

18. Who is going to play the janitor, the trashmen?

Oh that's right in Rand's world we don't have those :eyes:

[awoke_in_2003]

19. "1100-page property"

that drivel was THAT long? Shit, would rather read War and Peace.

[Dr Morbius]

20. The linked story also says this:

The surprise here though is that no-one has yet been cast, and while Theron and Maggie Gyllenhaal are "being courted" to play the lead Dagny Taggart, the production will go forward with unknowns if needs be as financing is already in place.

Here's hoping they lose a lot of money. Capitalism, as it should be.

[Oregone]

22. Does filming start on the Louisiana coastline?

[Dr Fate]

36. LOL! And where will "Galt's Gulch" be? China? India? n/t

n/t

[marshall]

23. Starring Angelina and Brad?

Are they still attached to the project?

[tonysam]

24. If it's anything like the 1949 screen adaptation of "The Fountainhead"

it should be a hoot.

[Goat or Panic]

25. The Passion of the Galt

BP, Halliburton...great timing numbnuts.


Also.....

"The John Galt Corp. and three construction supervisors were charged in a wide-ranging criminal indictment brought by a Manhattan grand jury.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/12/22/2008-12-22_bronx_contractor_john_galt_corp_charged_.html#ixzz0p5EvjwYp"

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. Director with almost no track record, no cast in place with 2 weeks to go

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689324/

and they've waited to film it until 'raw capitalism' has had its most obvious failure since the absurd book was written. And he wants to string it out over 4 movies. I think this has the potential of the 'Left Behind' books/films. Though they had churches to show the things in. What are they going to do, show these at Goldman Sachs board meetings?

[Iggo]

33. You win the internet.

:toast:

[onehandle]

28. Assholes everywhere rejoice. nt

[marmar]

29. Straight to video......

nt

[Iggo]

30. Audiences Shrugged.

[Dr Fate]

37. LOL! n/t

n/t

[HughBeaumont]

31. Atlas Shat.

Great. I can see the crowds now - a bunch of pasty Kansas-white males with bad hair, tri-corner hats, Gadsden shirts, flags, fanny packs and enough Teabag-tude to sink a Lipton plant. All to see a gaseous four-day extravaganza of selfishness, bad acting and directing likely. Special.

[corpseratemedia]

32. I'll bring my tea-bags

to throw at the screen and stuff in my ears if I hear any direct quotes of her horrific writing