After decades in development hell, Ayn Rand’s capitalism-minded “Atlas Shrugged” is taking new steps toward the big screen — with one of the film world’s most prominent money men potentially at its center.
They'll ruin it. There's NO WAY you can put 1100 pages of novel into a two-hour Hollywood movie. Can't.Be.Done.Period. It would be hard to do in a 10-hour miniseries. I read this book for the first time in College in 1971, and just recently started reading it again. I thought it was an exceptionally good read back then, and I felt a bond with Rearden and Taggert. I still do.....
They'll ruin it.
ReplyDeleteThere's NO WAY you can put 1100 pages of novel into a two-hour Hollywood movie.
Can't.Be.Done.Period.
It would be hard to do in a 10-hour miniseries.
I read this book for the first time in College in 1971, and just recently started reading it again. I thought it was an exceptionally good read back then, and I felt a bond with Rearden and Taggert.
I still do.....
I agree that it is, to say the least, highly unlikely that Atlas Shrugged would work as a movie.
ReplyDeleteEspecially if Howard and Karen Baldwin are related the Baldwin Brothers.
(As opposed to Adam Baldwin, who makes it clear he is NOT related to Those Baldwin Brothers...)
I have no doubt they'll turn it into "Bonfire of Inanities"
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