Jason KingTrailer of the Day: ATLAS SHRUGGED PT 1
February 15th 2011 20:28
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Hmmmmmm - Mum Used to Tell Me to Read This - not sure about the trailer
Category: Trailers
Many thanks to comingsoon.net for the info. My mum used to tell me to read this and that I would love it. I actually think I have a copy of it somewhere but after watching the film trailer I am not overly interested as it just doesn't do much for me. Online there is quite a bit of debate going on as to whether it should even be released. The biggest peeve I have read is that it is ruining the book and that rumors were abound of a big budget adaption of this story and then this "tele movie" quality film is coming out. To me it looks like a great tele movie but not something to be watched at a cinema. What do you think? Have you read?
Made on a budget of only $5 million Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is scheduled to hit theaters on April 15, the Paul Johansson (TV star from One Tree Hill???????) directed drama stars Taylor Schilling (Mercy), Grant Bowler (All Saints, True Blood), Matthew Marsden (Rambo, Transformers 2), Graham Beckel (LA Confidential, Brokeback Mountain), Edi Gathegi (Gone Baby Gone, Twilight), Jsu Garcia (A Nightmare on Elm St, We Were Soldiers) and Michael Lerner (Godzilla, Barton Fink).
In the film, Dagny Taggart (Schilling) runs Taggart Transcontinental, the largest remaining railroad company in America, with intelligence, courage and integrity, despite the systematic disappearance of her best and most competent workers.
She is drawn to industrialist Henry Rearden (Bowler), one of the few men whose genius and commitment to his own ideas match her own. Rearden's super-strength metal alloy, Rearden Metal, holds the promise that innovation can overcome the slide into anarchy.
Using the untested Rearden Metal, they rebuild the critical Taggart rail line in Colorado and pave the way for oil titan Ellis Wyatt (Beckel) to feed the flame of a new American Renaissance.
Hope rises again, when Dagny and Rearden discover the design of a revolutionary motor based on static electricity - in an abandoned engine factory - more proof to the sinister theory that the "men of the mind" (thinkers, industrialists, scientists, artists, and other innovators) are "on strike" and vanishing from society.
Made on a budget of only $5 million Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is scheduled to hit theaters on April 15, the Paul Johansson (TV star from One Tree Hill???????) directed drama stars Taylor Schilling (Mercy), Grant Bowler (All Saints, True Blood), Matthew Marsden (Rambo, Transformers 2), Graham Beckel (LA Confidential, Brokeback Mountain), Edi Gathegi (Gone Baby Gone, Twilight), Jsu Garcia (A Nightmare on Elm St, We Were Soldiers) and Michael Lerner (Godzilla, Barton Fink).
In the film, Dagny Taggart (Schilling) runs Taggart Transcontinental, the largest remaining railroad company in America, with intelligence, courage and integrity, despite the systematic disappearance of her best and most competent workers.
She is drawn to industrialist Henry Rearden (Bowler), one of the few men whose genius and commitment to his own ideas match her own. Rearden's super-strength metal alloy, Rearden Metal, holds the promise that innovation can overcome the slide into anarchy.
Using the untested Rearden Metal, they rebuild the critical Taggart rail line in Colorado and pave the way for oil titan Ellis Wyatt (Beckel) to feed the flame of a new American Renaissance.
Hope rises again, when Dagny and Rearden discover the design of a revolutionary motor based on static electricity - in an abandoned engine factory - more proof to the sinister theory that the "men of the mind" (thinkers, industrialists, scientists, artists, and other innovators) are "on strike" and vanishing from society.
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