Atlas Shrugged

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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117952131.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Randall Wallace, who wrote Braveheart and wrote and directed We Were Soldiers, is going to write a screenplay for Atlas Shrugged.

Hoo boy.

I dunno. I just don't know. The book is far too long to be made into a movie. Now, I've got like 3 degrees of separation from Wallace (my wife's good friend from high school works for him), and I've met him and he seems like the nicest guy you could ever meet.

However, I'm pretty sure he's a really religious guy (this article says his favorite book is Lewis's Mere Christianity). Ayn Rand was an athiest. In fact, she pretty much hated religion. So I always have to wonder whether a really religious person "gets" Rand. Now, I don't think he's planning to intentionally invert her theses, like whatshisface did to Starship Troopers, but I just am not getting a warm fuzzy from this news.
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If you've met Wallace, I think that means you have zero degrees of separation.
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Well...I can't really count that. I mean, on the Bacon scale, sure. But in talking about how well I know him...you know, that takes years.
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Not sure. I still think... well, I see what you're getting at.

But hey, I shook hands with a drunk Robin Williams, and you can't take that away from me.
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Ewww...
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Ayn Rand? Bleh. I don't wish to endure one more second perceiving her Objectivist shit.
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Ayn Rand? Bleh. I don't wish to endure one more second perceiving her Objectivist shit.


Coward.
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Post by Malcolm »

Ayn Rand? Bleh. I don't wish to endure one more second perceiving her Objectivist shit.

Coward.


Maybe, but a coward not reading or watching Ayn Rand bullshit.
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You and biteme do have something in common.
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Ouch.
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You and biteme do have something in common.


What the bloody hell?
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