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It's been announced that Angelina Jolie will play the role of Dagny Taggart in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Braveheart writer, Randall Wallace, will adapt the novel.
Taggart is the most powerful female character in any of Rand's books, and someone that Jolie was apparently eager to portray. During one of the many times the film was going to be made in the past, Faye Dunaway was brought up to play this lead.
The time in which the novel takes place is kept deliberately vague. However at one point the population of New York City is given as 7 million, a figure reached in the 1930s. Rand herself moved to the city in 1951, stating, "I love New York. It is a city, and I suppose that I am one of those decadent products of civilization that do not feel at home outside of a big city."
No word on when filming will start, or if any of it will be filmed in New York.
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Atlas Shrugged is freakin' long, how can a 2 or even a 3 hours movie do it justice? AS is not a movie material novel but a fictionalized opus of Rand's philosophy of capitalism/Objectiveism.
Anyway, I can't picture Dagny as hot as Jolie.
The only way one can do justice to this tome is to adapt it as a satire of itself. As a novel and as a philosophical treatise, it's a joke.
i want to know how they'll handle john galt's 200 page monologue.
Wow. That's going to be a feat. AJ is really hot, but I can see her playing a formidable woman well. Have any of Rand's other books been put on screen? I can't really picture it.
The Fountainhead way back when. With Gary Cooper as Roark (Roarke), I think?
the fountainhead was made in to a movie, in 1949.
#4 - "The Fountainhead" starring Gary Cooper
Way way way back in the day - I'd guess the 1980s - Tom Selleck was attached to an Atlas Shrugged miniseries project.
i cannot imagine how much fun this is going to be in a battlefield earth sort of way.
A IS A! A IS A!
plus it pisses off all the softheads, and maybe in between the heavy handed slabs of cardboard characters individualism (as a self-sustaining duty to one's responsibilities and self-sovereignty rather than a petulant egoism, i.e. it's all about me shirts, etc) might become cool again.
last i heard it was supposed to be a trilogy, which is probably more than i can hang with.
Ayn Rand wrote a screenplay for The Fountainhead which was produced in 1949 (a mere 114 minutes long)--imdb for the last few months has listed that Lion's Gate bought rights to The Fountainhead and was in production talks with Jolie (as Dominic Franken) and Brad Pitt (as Howard Roark)--this news is a bit more surprising to me--maybe they can get Johnnie Depp to play Ragnar.
Angelina can play women who kick-ass, not those who have the nearly ascetic mental resolve as Dagny Taggart. Please.
Oh goody, now a movie about how anything not strictly capitalist, dog-eat-dog will ruin the world. "No really, I'm helping the world by being a selfish prick." I wonder how many generations of entitled jackasses have wrung their self-justification from this book.
Jolie? I would have pegged one of the teen idols for the movie. After all, don't most grow out of their Ayn Rand/ writing bad poetry phase when they leave high school?
Has anyone actually SEEN the foutainhead movie that was made - I have. Some parts are okay - others are ridiculously and outrageously laughable. I recommend it.
"I wonder how many generations of entitled jackasses have wrung their self-justification from this book."
Many, my friend, many. I have always told my friends to beware the man who claims that Ayn Rand is his favorite author.
Looking forward to it. Sure, the novel reads like some cartoonish, juicy sweet pulp, but it's fun. It is especially fun in the context of today's America. I can't wait for the polarizing debates to begin.
Samantha,
Me too! If a man says Ayn Rand is his favourite author, that is the death blow to our relationship.
Ayn Rand is horrible.
Aw. Ayn Rand is my favorite author, Samantha. I probably don't get as much meaning out of her books as some, but they are really compelling reads. Who knows? Maybe I just like The FOuntainhead so much because it takes place in New York and I used to work for a company that she could have based Wynand papers on.
Some of us just honestly enjoy it as good reading.
The Fountainhead is a big part of the curriculum at most Catholic/private Schools
Angelina Jolie would be good but not quiet right for the enigmatic Dagny Taggart..thank goodness when I was reading the book last summer I was not picturing Ms Jolie as Dagny it would have drove me crazy! they should have picked Ashley Judd she is the Perfect Dagny...anyway lot's of people agree that the book is way to long to be made into a film...definitely read "The Passion of Ayn Rand" A Biography by Barbara Branden it's an amazing read..if you love romance, drama and intrigue!