7 thoughts on “Unaccountably, Angelina Jolie Passed on this Inevitable Cinematic Triumph”
Lede, for those who don't want to burn a NYT visit on this twaddle:
LOS ANGELES — It took a while — more than 40 years, actually. But Albert S Ruddy, a movie and television producer who does not like to quit, has landed rights to make his passion project: a screen version of “Atlas Shrugged,” Ayn Rand’s Objectivist bible.
Hilarious detail grafs obviously clipboarded from press release:
Mr. Ruddy, whose canon includes films as varied as “The Godfather” and “The Cannonball Run,” almost had a deal back in the early 1970s, when he wooed Ms. Rand personally while sitting on a small couch in New York.
But Ms Rand, who had left the Soviet Union in the 1920s and feared the Russians might acquire Paramount Pictures to subvert the project, wanted script approval; Mr. Ruddy, as adamant as she was, declined. “Then I’ll put in my will, the one person who can’t get it is you,” Mr. Ruddy recalls being told by Ms. Rand, who died in 1982.
Mr. Ruddy, who is working up an outline for a writer or writers yet to be named, sees his rendition as a love story, built squarely around its commanding female protagonist, Dagny Taggart. (Angelina Jolie was in line for an earlier, never-made version.)
Interesting sidelight: a Google image search for Angelina Jolie comes up blank. Is there nothing she can't control?
Judging by the HUGE lack of interest and complete box office bomb that the last attempt to film this was, the free market has been pretty fucking clear about how the public feels about wanting a filmed version of this. So of course this delusional idiot hopes to sucker/guilt some libertarian-run Silicon Valley streaming service to finance and carry it (hey, Netflix just gave Adam Sandler way too much money for crap no one but a few drunken 40-something frat boys will watch by accident when their wives are out of town… why not Atlas Shrugged?)
ETA: You'd think a guy who was looking into pitching a tv series to a streaming service would know that Netflix and Amazon have pretty much settled on a standard 10 episode run as a season. I mean, you're going to need at least 3 of those for that 50-page monologue.
Lede, for those who don't want to burn a NYT visit on this twaddle:
Hilarious detail grafs obviously clipboarded from press release:
Interesting sidelight: a Google image search for Angelina Jolie comes up blank. Is there nothing she can't control?
Judging by the HUGE lack of interest and complete box office bomb that the last attempt to film this was, the free market has been pretty fucking clear about how the public feels about wanting a filmed version of this. So of course this delusional idiot hopes to sucker/guilt some libertarian-run Silicon Valley streaming service to finance and carry it (hey, Netflix just gave Adam Sandler way too much money for crap no one but a few drunken 40-something frat boys will watch by accident when their wives are out of town… why not Atlas Shrugged?)
ETA: You'd think a guy who was looking into pitching a tv series to a streaming service would know that Netflix and Amazon have pretty much settled on a standard 10 episode run as a season. I mean, you're going to need at least 3 of those for that 50-page monologue.
You mean railroad magnate John Galt's AM radio address to the nation? How much longer must we wait to "see" that timely cinematic moment?
It really was meant for film.
This guy to play a major part? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4191041/bio?ref_=nm_ov…
Nick Woo is John Galt?
Man these fast reboots are getting ridiculous.
Atlas Shrugged, but so did the public when hearing the movie existed.