ATLAS SHRUGGED to shoot in the fall
Posted by Matt Holmes
We’ve heard zip about Vadim Perelman’s adaptation of one of the world’s longest novels Atlas Shrugged since September and finally the news has leaked as to why, thanks to Coming Soon.
Perelman has been busy polishing the script and is now working on re-writes. You might think this has taken him a while to do but remember the WGA strike ate up at least three months of his time and the fact that the original text is some 645,000 words long.
Lionsgate say they want the film prepped ready for a December shoot and that Angelina Jolie is still very much committed to starring in the project.
Indeed, it’s been the actress who has been spearheading the film this far down the road.
Anyone ever even attempted to read the novel? Trying to give you a brief synopsis would probably be futile, so instead I shall guide you to it’s extensive WIKI entry.
Perelman’s next movie The Life Before Her Eyes starring Uma Thurman opens next Friday. You can see that trailer HERE.
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It’s my understanding Perelman left the project in June. I have read all of Ayn Rand’s books, found them an interesting part of my college youth, yet of little interest today. If AS was written in the same thematic way as Mad Men, it would have a chance at success. Written as a film, either philsophically or romantically I believe it will fail. Lecture’s in a film drawing a mass market? No, niche market. Romantic story with a heroine who cannot establish a clear and healthy relationship with one man. No, today’s world, a no sell to the GP. Jolie, of Lara Croft fame, (tats and silicone), as Dagny? No.