hahahahahaha Atlas Shrugged is being made into a movie! with Angelina Jolie! [EDIT: actually not anymore! oh well!]

Not so hot anymore?

I'd be the black sheep of this family so damn quick.

oh for fuck's sake

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what

For some reason, this seems totally logical.

SHOCKED

directed by the director of the paris hilton sextape

FFS, really? Paranoia over the Kennedy assasination and being cranky about Nixon was almost universal for his and subsiquent generations. How was Natural Born Killers a far-left movie?

http://thumb2.shutterstock.com/photos3/thumb_small/10087/10087,1132560086,1.jpg

US view on rand seems to = omg this is serious philosophy!!!

but based on the number of people i know under 40 who call themselves libertarians, i won't be surprised if some form of libertarianism is the next big wave in american politics. it's what underlies a lot of the "western strategy" being considered by both parties right now. so a big rand revival could be in the offing.

enough undergraduates do to make it rather disturbing.

didn't wanna say 'i hope those are ironic' because what if they aren't really i'm too old to engage in a serious discussion with someone who isn't horrified by ayn rand about her work

enh, I mean I could see watching it not ironically but out of genuine interest in badness, I mean voluntarily watched battlefield earth and read NRO from time to time just to keep tabs and such

i suspect every tech person whose politics i don't know is secretly a way out libertarian. it turns out to be the case depressingly often :-(

Where I live it's pretty much a guarantee.

http://www.yahoo.com/movies/ron-paul-to-make-acting-debut-in-part-3-of-atlas-89270143262.html

Now featuring: Ron Paul! Sean Hannity! Glenn Beck!

In each of these films, Dagny and Hank are played by different actors. This time ROB MORROW is playing Hank? Really?

I wonder if I should watch the first one for Piper Chapman now?

Since I watched it first, I always think OITNB is about a bunch of ladies who went galt.

Would like to see a Northern Exposure episode where the cast does a community-theater production of Atlas Shrugged. True to Alaska, and Janine Turner would probably be down for it.

Thinking of Janine Turner now makes the teenage me sad.

I don't know why I'm surprised that this has made it to a second, risible looking sequel, but anyway. Trailer:

http://youtu.be/GSJNU41h5Cg

can't believe you need three movies for one shitty book

#hobbit

You saying Peter Jackson is ghost-directing this?

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/11/sean_hannity_and_glenn_beck_in_a_bizarre_ayn_rand_fever_dream/

lol the cast was like completely different in all three movies

I would watch a filmed version of Telemachus Sneezed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=175&v=AH9ufx-Wq3w

Zack Snyder has confirmed his next project will be an adaptation of Ayn Rand's THE FOUNTAINHEAD. pic.twitter.com/HiBhQTgkld

— Talk Film Society (@TalkFilmSoc) May 28, 2018

Truly the man to do it justice.

knowing he’d willingly make an Ayn Rand adaptation pretty much explains his whole film career

If ever a couple of hideous cunts deserved each other, it's rand and snydet.

Kind of a perfect storm of material and director. A match made in Crap Heaven!

Won’t lie, I am kinda stoked.

It always irritates me to go to a bookstore and see Ayn Rand shelved with the "Classics". She's just so irretrievable bad.

Won’t lie, I am kinda stoked.

Yeah, I'm kinda down with Snyder going as vulgar as possible with this. I hope he believes he is a Howard Roark.

someone should make the best ever period 50s/60s sex farce out of my years with ayn rand, the bildungsmemoir by one of her ahem "circle" who eventually broke with her philosophy and went on to (wait for it) found the self-help movement. not always intentionally one of the most revealing books i've ever read. don't even mean primarily about ayn rand. but about her too: jesus christ.

even now it is most likely uncool to give a shit but 300 remains prob the fashest movie i've ever seen, triumph of the will included. you long for the melancholy ambiguity of death wish

guys this is probably the best news i've had in months - american cinema's most meanspirited, meagre direcor takes on one of the 20th century's most indefensible novels! what could be more entertaining?

I was prepared to physically carry you to this thread if you didn't stumble upon it yourself.

As a fan of massive lulz this is great news

The original movie is pretty excellent if you've never seen it

It always irritates me to go to a bookstore and see Ayn Rand shelved with the "Classics". She's just so irretrievable bad.

Black cover Penguin classic :(

I was prepared to physically carry you to this thread if you didn't stumble upon it yourself.

i felt a great disturbance in the luminerferous aether and was irresistably compelled to investigate

Don't know if Zack's looking for notes but Tom Cruise was born to play Roark

nailed it

Arm0nd's review is legitimately going to be a masterpiece and is actually already written.

i just can't wait to see how snyder, who is perhaps second only to michael bay in the cinematic-adhd stakes, handles endless scenes of extremely tedious dialogue

isn't vince vaughn a big libertarian shithead? he'd probably kill to play roark

Surely Snyder could have a Dr. Parnassus-esque rotating cast of alpha dudes playing the role.

I wonder if Jon Hamm would do it.

Gary Cooper will be tough to beat

It'll almost certainly be Cavill, won't it. I can feel it.

John Cena

I could never hack the Cooper version w/out MST3K, let alone reading Rand

but the man was born to play fascists tbf

Courtroom scene: Roark monologues for two minutes before Zack gets bored. Cut to zoom-in shot of a jar of urine. Cut to Roark dynamiting the courthouse with all the socialists inside.

John Cena

― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, May 29, 2018 8:53 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Misread this as 'Jon Secada' and nearly sprayed a mouthful of coffee across my monitor.

It'll almost certainly be Cavill, won't it. I can feel it.

I think I'd be willing to wager a good deal of money that there's a videotape in existence containing a homemade adaptation of The Fountainhead starring Paul Ryan.

Or, at the very least, a dog-eared copy of the book with many instances of 'Roark Ryan' throughout.

It always irritates me to go to a bookstore and see Ayn Rand shelved with the "Classics". She's just so irretrievable bad.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, May 28, 2018 10:49 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Really she belongs in self-help. Self-help for complete assholes who want to feel ok about being assholes.

When the first Atlas Shrugged film came out they asked for fans to say "I am john galt" to add to a dvd extra. The results are some of the best, most strange youtube videos you'll ever see pic.twitter.com/lVoSSSyQ0h

— Cruiskeen Lawnmower Deth (@NoChorus) August 11, 2018

Strangely, there was only one in that group of a couple dozen youtubes that featured a person of color, at least that I noticed.