is nothing safe?
I found out, from a little blurb on a friend’s site, that a movie based on the book Atlas Shrugged is maybe in production, for 2008, with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie “in talks” to play John Galt and Dagny Taggart, respectively.
Absolutely in no way can we allow this. Please, hollywood. Please. First off, not everything under the sun needs to be a movie. This book does not need to be made into a film, it does not, no no no. 2nd, if you insist, as I know you will, then don’t make it into a laughable circus show. I am begging you.
How odd that those two would even be interested in playing those two characters. Actually…not so odd, when you really think about it.
I had not heard of Atlas Shrugged until now. After reading a few sites
about the book, I comes to realize that this social and science ficyion book is involved and complex.
Any effort to bring it to film would mean that the final product would leave giant gaps in what the book presented, or the movie would be extremely long.
Those that see the movie without reading the book may find entire sections where they have no idea what they are talking about and those
that have read the book will feel cheated or comprimised by the truncated imagery. For the sake of bringing it to film, their is no way special effects or a director can reproduce the imagery and personal relationship
a reader has with a work of this nature.
Like the Dune books and the movie Dune.
See this link
http://www.baldwinent.com/prod_atlasshrugged.html