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18 June 2006

I'll go if they can get Oliver Platt to play Jimmy Taggart and maybe Billy Bob Thornton as Hank Reardon...→[More:]Oh, and if someone trepans me with a rusty spatula.

post by: PinkStainlessTail at: 17:03 | 8 comments

Wendell Shrugged.

posted by wendell 18 June | 17:33

I have been successful thus far avoiding her books. I will not succumb to a movie or two.

posted by carmina 18 June | 17:57

Jolie as Dagny Taggart? Christ, that would be awful casting.

posted by mullacc 18 June | 18:05

Pitt as Galt would work, but from what little I have seen of Jolie, she hasn't the depth of Dagny. The real question for me is who they will cast as d'Anconia.

posted by mischief 18 June | 20:32

I pictured Galt as looking a bit like Robert Duval when I read the book. Not sure why. Dagny looked like Rand, which made the sex scenes a little icky.

d'Anconia would be a wonderful chance for Sasha Baron Cohen to try out a new fake accent.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 18 June | 21:36

How about Jamie Foxx as d'Anconia?

No, I'm not kidding.

posted by mischief 18 June | 21:58

Hey, if they could actually make something entertaining come out of that overweighty piece of tripe, more power to them.

posted by Captaintripps 18 June | 21:59

I bet it's like that flick Battlefield Earth, Scientology's answer to Ben-Hur. Shit-tee.

posted by Hugh Janus 19 June | 11:00

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