Atlas Shrunk 2.0

Here’s some news about the Atlas Shrugged movie, plus a cast list.

The news looks slightly better than I originally feared – i.e. the budget is more than the initially reported $5 million, they plan to make more than one movie, Francisco is in the script after all, etc. Still not especially optimistic.

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7 Responses to Atlas Shrunk 2.0

  1. Roderick August 6, 2010 at 2:07 am #

    P.S. As a corrective to Rand’s monochrome world, they’re making Eddie Willers black. Peikoff had previously suggested making Cherryl Brooks black. But those are both relatively weak characters; I’d always wanted to make Ellis Wyatt black, though others have done me one better.

  2. MBH August 6, 2010 at 8:41 am #

    I always imagined Hugh Akston as Roderick Long.

    • Roderick August 6, 2010 at 2:08 pm #

      “Slender and tall,” a “lean face,” “cold, observant eyes,” and a “look of courteous sternness” — yup, that’s me.

      • MBH August 6, 2010 at 2:46 pm #

        Well, you do physically have “cold, observant eyes,” and a “look of courteous sternness” sometimes. And now it just seems like I’m hitting on you. 🙂

        I was going more on you as channel to the Master Knower.

  3. Mike August 6, 2010 at 1:55 pm #

    Maybe I’m focusing on nonessentials, but when I watch an interview with the director and hear him mispronounce Rand’s first name and describe her heroes and heroines as being beyond good and evil, I worry that this won’t end well.

    • Roderick August 6, 2010 at 2:09 pm #

      Egad. Where did you see this interview?

  4. Mike August 7, 2010 at 12:05 pm #

    Here’s the link to the part of the interview I was talking about. There’s video in the second part:

    http://www.libertasfilmmagazine.com/exclusive-lfm-visits-the-set-of-atlas-shrugged-director-paul-johanssons-first-interview-about-the-film-part-i/

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