Atlas Shrugged III: Who Is John Galt? Film Still Coming - First Trailer

[Blue_Adept]

The first film had a budget or $20 million and made $4.6 million back in 2011. The second film landed in fall of 2012 for a $10 million budget and made $3.3 million. The third film is slated for a September 12th, 2014 release and the first trailer has arrived. No budget is listed yet, but it was partially funded by a Kickstarter campaign.

What an absolute trainwreck it's been, gloriously so.

[edhopper]

1. In which part

do we get the 150 page speech, and how will they edit it?

[BillZBubb]

2. I think the answer to the title question will be a resounding WHO CARES!

Terrible book, worse films.

[demigoddess]

3. ayn rand wrote the worst books ever

I couldn't stomach their stupidity in high school. Can't imagine who, or what, would admire her writings.

[onehandle]

4. Every Fucking Word Of Johnny-Come-Lately Snake Oil Salesman Ayn Rand Is Negated By...

[hifiguy]

7. Chaplin >>>>>>>>> Rand.

Ayn Rand wrote what is possibly the worst, most turgid and laughable prose that has ever been passed off as a novel.

Thanks for this, onehandle. Beautiful.

[Brigid]

5. Why?

[dawg]

6. Clearly, the market has spoken.

Atlas shrugged, and so did moviegoers.

[hifiguy]

8. How many millions or tens of millions

have been flushed down this sewer?

[edhopper]

10. Better they fund this

less money to give to libertarian looneys like Paul.

[DetlefK]

9. I wonder if they go for the FULL John Galt monologue.

What was it? 40 pages, or so I've heard? That would be about 80-120 minutes

[Blue Idaho]

11. If Ann Rand is seen as a guiding light

of conservative thought. Their philosophy really is in a huge heap of trouble.

[TlalocW]

12. I need to start a Kickstarter campaign

To get my "vision" of Atlas Shrugged: The Aftermath made. Essentially, after society is burning, the "noble makers" realize there's no one left that can do the labor needed to make them clothes, houses, food, etc., and their society quickly falls apart. The penultimate scene is a gaunt, terrified man on the run in the dead of night from one of the many tribes the makers have splintered into. He's clutching a can of beans, which he'll use to stay alive one more day. Unfortunately for him, he's killed by the tribe - the can of beans lost - and never even noticed - in the attack. As the sun slowly begins to rise, the tribe consisting of the makers, looking tired and in tattered clothing, is busy starting cook fires to roast the corpse of the man they had killed. As they're preparing him, one of the tribe says, "Hey... This is John Galt!" Another asks, "Who is John Galt?" A pause before a third man replies, "Breakfast!" to the amusement of his fellow tribesmen.

The scene does a fly-away pan from the campfire, showing the mountain/valley area the makers have inhabited, where once lush and green with strong looking houses, it is now blackened and pock-marked, the houses crumbling. The smoke from multiple fires is seen. The pan levels off at this point and continues, picking up speed as things get blurry, finally coming to rest looking down at the ground at a pile of broken glass, charred embers, and trash. Pause, and a broom sweeps it away. Pan up and out, and you see the "takers" working together to clean up an area that still shows evidence of being destroyed as well as evidence of people working to make it better. A slow pan out and up reveals more of the city showing more work being done, food being distributed, people being cared for, even children playing, as it becomes apparent that human civilization is rebounding and rebounding quickly because the true parasites of society have taken care of themselves.

Pan up. Shot of the mountain from far away with blue sky and fluffy white clouds behind it. Quick fade to black.

TlalocW