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The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:07 am
by The Fanciful Norwegian
Cameras roll on trainwreck in the making
The long-brewing feature version of author Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" has begun shooting in Los Angeles as a $5 million indie produced by John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow.
Cameras began rolling over the weekend on a five-week shoot for "Atlas Shrugged Part One" with Paul Johansson directing from Brian Patrick O'Toole's script. Aglialoro would have lost the feature rights if the film wasn't in production by Saturday.
A spokesman for Aglialoro -- the CEO of exercise equipment producer Cybex -- said there will be at least one more "Atlas Shrugged" shot after the current film's completed. Rand's massive novel is divided into three parts, each consisting of 10 chapters.
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Johansson ("One Tree Hill") portrays Galt.
Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:08 pm
by Cosmic Bus
Atlas Shrugged (Part 1!), surprisingly, not part of daily Onion update.
Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:13 pm
by domino harvey
Oh God, it's like one of those Christian Evangelical movies where the director was forced to cast friends of the producer as a condition of funding. And Michael Lerner
Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:42 am
by Oedipax
domino harvey wrote:Oh God, it's like one of those Christian Evangelical movies where the director was forced to cast friends of the producer as a condition of funding. And Michael Lerner
And the guy from the diner scene in
Mulholland Dr. (he also mistakes Steve Buscemi's video store request for
8½ as
9½ Weeks in
Ghost World). Hard to forget those eyebrows.
Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:10 am
by flyonthewall2983
So funny you should mention him, I just recognized him in Speed of all things.
Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:46 pm
by Roger Ryan
Oedipax wrote:domino harvey wrote:Oh God, it's like one of those Christian Evangelical movies where the director was forced to cast friends of the producer as a condition of funding. And Michael Lerner
And the guy from the diner scene in
Mulholland Dr. (he also mistakes Steve Buscemi's video store request for
8½ as
9½ Weeks in
Ghost World). Hard to forget those eyebrows.
Patrick Fischler was superb as the nightclub comedian in MAD MEN, too. The rest of the lead performances in ATLAS SHRUGGED all strike me as colorless as far as what the trailer shows.
Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:49 pm
by mfunk9786
His performance in the Mulholland Dr diner scene should have gotten him a supporting actor Oscar - not kidding. Every bit of the performance is perfectly crafted, right down to the nervous I-might-pass-out tingly flop sweat.
Re: New Films in Production
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:08 am
by domino harvey
So those crazy people actually made Atlas Shrugged: Part 2. And they cast Samantha Mathis and DB Sweeney instead of whoever wasn't those people in the first one. Mathis is talented, but can she be as bad as
this?
Re: New Films in Production
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:38 pm
by colinr0380
Well, as that scene shows sometimes objections over whether something is the right thing to do get overruled when someone demands that you must risk all for a pile of cash! Or maybe Mathis volunteered her services to the project?
Re: New Films in Production
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:32 pm
by HistoryProf
does she get tag teamed by the old guy and the black dude after the youtube clip cuts off? That has to be a porn right? no one would actually pretend something that bad is a serious film would they?
Re: New Films in Production
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:42 pm
by domino harvey
Re: New Films in Production
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:14 pm
by Forrest Taft
Where is Barmy when we need him the most?
Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-201X)
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:52 am
by domino harvey
Amazing: They're making the third film (partially funded via un-Randian Kickstarter) and
they've recast all the parts again
Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:46 pm
by Perkins Cobb
I kind of want to see these just as a compendium of familiar mid-level TV character actors. Also, John Putch: son of Jean Stapleton, Star Trek alien, and frequent Cougar Town director, so I'll be looking for auteurist connective tissue between the second film and the Cul-de-sac Crew.
Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:09 pm
by mfunk9786
Movie-Brat wrote:Anyway, anyone here actually Atlas Shrugged? The first two movies?
*crickets chirping*
Nope? Well, I forgot they existed myself but check out this "groovy" poster.
Gosh, Taylor Schilling is so excellent in
Orange is the New Black, it's easy to forget (and I'm sure she's thankful for that) that she was... [I don't even like typing this dreadful character name]
Dagny Taggert in
Atlas Shrugged: Part 1.
Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:19 pm
by Movie-Brat
Oh. My bad. Though I'm surprised somebody went through the trouble of making a thread about what's essentially a set "easy to forget they exist" movies.
Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:36 am
by zedz
Movie-Brat wrote:
That film looks like it was shot by whoever supervised the
Don't Look Now BluRay transfer.
Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:05 pm
by ShellOilJunior
Watching these three films might be more painful than reading all of Galt's speech in the novel.
Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:30 pm
by Numero Trois
Ron Paul will cameo in the next one. No word if his racist newsletters will also.
Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 6:32 pm
by domino harvey
I am ashamed to confess that even though I saw
the Fountainhead many years ago and was thus versed enough to catch references to it (plus I had a period there where I hate-watched pro-Rand news magazine segments on YouTube-- don't ask), it only just occurred to me recently that
this hilarious Kids in the Hall sketch is a brilliant and in hindsight obvious riff on
the Fountainhead
Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:43 pm
by domino harvey