Screenwriter Randall Wallace has just landed a nightmare gig. Lionsgate has hired him to adapt Ayn Rand's massive tome, "Atlas Shrugged" into a feature film according to Variety.
Wallace however, should be used to lost causes. He wrote Pearl Harbor for Michael Bay after all. Knowing Bay, he probably didn't even read the script, just asked how many explosions there were in it. He also wrote Braveheart, so you know he's not a total dud and the guy seems to know his way around an epic.
But Braveheart and Pearl Harbor have action sequences in them to keep the audience awake. Atlas Shrugged has melodramatic corporate takeovers and a lot of heavy duty sermonizing. It's also frickin huge, and distilling it down into an acceptably sized script will be an incredibly difficult task.
Though there's no finished script, the movie already has stars. Wallace will be writing for Angelina Jolie, who's set to play the movie's female lead.
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Josh, I don't remember corporate takeovers in the traditional definition, melodramatic or otherwise, in Atlas Shrugged. Nor would I characterize the amazing, passionate, mind-expanding speeches as dull sermonizing. I do remember action sequences including, for example, a railroad disaster and a chase involving small airplanes, plus overall a thrilling suspense and mystery story, full of danger and adventure, about life and death issues, that you must force yourself to put down in order to get some sleep. Not to mention the passionate, dramatic love stories and sex scenes. I suppose you would have called "Gone With The Wind" a lost cause before it was made. Do you claim your reporting to be accurate or invented from your imagination? Why would you pretend to be qualified to describe a novel you have never read?
Zeigerson is correct because "corporate takeovers" in everyday language mean private business takeovers, i.e., legitimate purchases, by other private businesses or private businessmen. However, there certainly are "corporate takeovers" throughout "Atlas Shrugged," but the corporations are taken over by the fricking government! And that is world of differerence from what your statement implies.
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Screenwriter Randall Wallace has just landed a nightmare gig. Lionsgate has hired him to adapt Ayn Rand's massive tome, "Atlas Shrugged" into a feature film according to Variety.
October 19th, 2006 at 00:00
Josh, I don't remember corporate takeovers in the traditional definition, melodramatic or otherwise, in Atlas Shrugged. Nor would I characterize the amazing, passionate, mind-expanding speeches as dull sermonizing. I do remember action sequences including, for example, a railroad disaster and a chase involving small airplanes, plus overall a thrilling suspense and mystery story, full of danger and adventure, about life and death issues, that you must force yourself to put down in order to get some sleep. Not to mention the passionate, dramatic love stories and sex scenes. I suppose you would have called "Gone With The Wind" a lost cause before it was made. Do you claim your reporting to be accurate or invented from your imagination? Why would you pretend to be qualified to describe a novel you have never read?