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

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lol the cast was like completely different in all three movies

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 December 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link

I would watch a filmed version of Telemachus Sneezed.

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

Sanpaku, Saturday, 9 December 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link

five months pass...

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.

Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 28 May 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link

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

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Monday, 28 May 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link

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

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link

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

Won’t lie, I am kinda stoked.

latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link

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), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link

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.

jmm, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link

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

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 04:14 (five years ago) link

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

Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link

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

Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link

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 :(

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link

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

Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link

nailed it

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

nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link

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.

jmm, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link

Gary Cooper will be tough to beat

Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link

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

John Cena

nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link

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

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link

but the man was born to play fascists tbf

Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link

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.

jmm, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link

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.


cavill seems like a total dick irl so there’s a decent chance he’s already a rand fan tbh

you know who i really want for this? paul ryan

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.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

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

Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:35 (five years ago) link

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

A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:51 (five years ago) link


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