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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:40 pm
by thibodeaux
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.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:42 pm
by GORDON
If you've met Wallace, I think that means you have zero degrees of separation.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:50 pm
by thibodeaux
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.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:55 pm
by GORDON
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.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:01 pm
by thibodeaux
Ewww...

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:28 pm
by Malcolm
Ayn Rand? Bleh. I don't wish to endure one more second perceiving her Objectivist shit.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:29 pm
by GORDON
Ayn Rand? Bleh. I don't wish to endure one more second perceiving her Objectivist shit.


Coward.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:32 pm
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.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:51 pm
by TheCatt
You and biteme do have something in common.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:15 pm
by GORDON
Ouch.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:47 pm
by Malcolm
You and biteme do have something in common.


What the bloody hell?