The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)

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The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)

#1 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:07 am

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.

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Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films

#2 Post by Cosmic Bus » Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:08 pm

Atlas Shrugged (Part 1!), surprisingly, not part of daily Onion update.

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Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films

#3 Post by domino harvey » Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:13 pm

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

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#4 Post by Oedipax » Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:42 pm

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 as 9½ Weeks in Ghost World). Hard to forget those eyebrows.

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#5 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:10 am

So funny you should mention him, I just recognized him in Speed of all things.

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Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films

#6 Post by Roger Ryan » Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:46 pm

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 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.

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Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films

#7 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:49 pm

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.

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Re: New Films in Production

#8 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:08 pm

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?

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#9 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:38 pm

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?

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#10 Post by HistoryProf » Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:32 am

domino harvey wrote: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?
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?

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#11 Post by domino harvey » Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:42 am

domino harvey wrote: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?
Trailer

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Re: New Films in Production

#12 Post by Forrest Taft » Thu Sep 06, 2012 11:14 am

Where is Barmy when we need him the most?

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Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-201X)

#13 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:52 pm

Amazing: They're making the third film (partially funded via un-Randian Kickstarter) and they've recast all the parts again

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Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)

#14 Post by Perkins Cobb » Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:46 pm

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.

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#15 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:09 pm

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.
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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.

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#16 Post by Movie-Brat » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:19 pm

domino harvey wrote:Never 4get
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.

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#17 Post by zedz » Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:36 pm

Movie-Brat wrote: Image
That film looks like it was shot by whoever supervised the Don't Look Now BluRay transfer.

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Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)

#18 Post by ShellOilJunior » Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:05 am

Watching these three films might be more painful than reading all of Galt's speech in the novel.

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Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)

#19 Post by Numero Trois » Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:30 am

Ron Paul will cameo in the next one. No word if his racist newsletters will also.

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Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)

#20 Post by domino harvey » Fri Aug 15, 2014 2:32 pm

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

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Re: The Atlas Shrugged Saga (Various, 2011-2014)

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