They Are Actually Making a Second ATLAS SHRUGGED Film

[romantico]

WTF?! Usually when a film bombs like the first film did they scrap plans for sequels.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/caption-contest-grover-norquist-plays-homeless-extra-in-the-new-atlas-shrugged-film-2/

[louis-t]

1. I love it when rich repugs piss their money away.

The End.

[Frank Cannon]

35. At least these rich repugs are providing jobs to people.

I mean, aside from the usual drug dealers and pimps.

[gratuitous]

2. Really gonna give Plan 9 from Outer Space a run for its money

At least in the usual list of dreck movies, there really wasn't an expectation that Ed Wood was threatening to invade the pantheon of great cinematic art. But I have little doubt that some of the folks involved in the Atlas project truly believe they are involved in the next classic of American movie-making. Which makes it all the funnier.

[progressoid]

3. This one is gonna be more gooder.

[Erose999]

4. Have you seen the trailer? It looks like it will star Glenn Beck and Jon Stossell, lol.

[romantico]

12. For

For those who can sit through the trailer.

[jmowreader]

24. That's the trailer to part 1

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

25. Holy sheeeeet

Look out Avengers, this movie will make some serious coin.

Seriously, that is worst trailer ever. Why should I give a flying fuck about metal, a train, and John Galt?

[Brickbat]

5. Apparently they liked that feeling of the free hand of the market slapping them on the ass.

[Enrique]

6. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[kestrel91316]

19. More like slapping them upside the head, from what I hear.

[Zalatix]

27. Actually, it's their ass.

Oh no, wait a second, in their case can anyone tell the difference?

[LiberalLoner]

7. It's all about forcing propoganda down our throats. Money doesn't matter. They

will push these ideas down our throats until we accept them and become a nation of slaves for the rich, and then dead slaves whenever we are no longer needed. That is their vision for the world and they will use all the resources they have to achieve that goal.

[Enrique]

9. it's ironic isn't it

this movie is wingnut welfare and they're supposed to hate welfare.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. They ought to rename it Audience Shrugged

Unless they punch it up with comedic pratfalls or expensive special effects it'll be the same ridiculous crappy story contained in the ridiculous crappy book.

[hifiguy]

11. As Peter Griffin once said "For god's sake won't somebody

throw a pie??"

[Zalatix]

29. What a waste of pie! :D

[stevenleser]

14. Oh man, I want to use that. Can I? Pretty please? nt

[HappyMe]

32. You are assuming there will be an audience

awake & sober enough to shrug.
Even if the tickets were free, I still wouldn't go.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Methinks they are going to learn a little about the downsides of capitalism......

By the way, whatever happened to the second part of Battlefield Earth that John Travolta swore he was going to make?

[fascisthunter]

13. purely propagandistic... there is no real reason financially to make a second one

No DEMAND whatsoever... so... they are using this as a political tool. What the right wing constantly accuses liberals of doing, they themselves do.

[FSogol]

15. Even as proproganda, it is a piss poor waste of money.

Think of the dozen or so of people that will see the literal and metaphoric train wreck. Think of their confusion as the GOP prevents Obama from building high speed rail.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. That train wreck is pure evil

Intentionally caused by someone to get back at the evil socialist government. Rand describes all the dead, all the victims as socialism-loving parasites who had it coming, like school teachers and professors. It's not just terrible writing. It's a manifesto of evil.

[FSogol]

18. An attempt to justify greed by a dysfunctional writer that could not understand love or compassion.

[fascisthunter]

30. proof the right wing movement is a CULT

[sadbear]

16. These films are clearly an example of

actual movies going galt.

[Laxman]

20. I just took a class in German history.

Watching that trailer, there were a lot of elements of the Nazi propaganda movies we analyzed in class. They make the union rep and the unfriendly legislator look all weaselly while the "heroes" look like characters from high-brow 1940's musicals. Its like rich people's porn.

[lunasun]

23. True ! But I hear college age talking about it a lot too

Like the Nazis , their propaganda can work on the younger adults who then take up the philosophy with vigour and can create a wave

They are hoping it sells heads without regards to profit
Will they issue some version of their holy book on a regular basis over and over every year now?

[LadyHawkAZ]

21. I thought they DID scrap plans for a sequel

the director threw a big ol' tantrum and everything when the free market didn't go his way? What changed?

[MrScorpio]

22. The only good thing about this is that a cast and crew will get a paycheck out of it

But after its made and all of those checks have cleared, it should be burned, because it won't be worth the digital media that it's printed on.

Save the movie theater space for better movies, like 'The Dictator'.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. I'm waiting for.....

"An American Carol 2: Capitalist Boogaloo".

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Thus, Finally answering the question "who is John Galt"

Hes the one and only guy in theater, asleep in row 6 in a puddle of his own urine.

[cynatnite]

31. The last one didn't even get a Razzie. Maybe this one will finally get attention. n/t

[HeiressofBickworth]

33. I read Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead

many years ago. I don't recall all of it, of course, but I do recall that they made very little impression on me as a novel and no impression at all as a political statement. So when I read about Ayn Rand and the affect her novels had on some people, I'm puzzled. It must be that those people who worship Rand were looking for something to hang their hats on in the first place and projected what they wanted into the novels. Pshaw -- it ain't great literature. As for making a sequel to the original movie, well, isn't this where they get to find out how free enterprise works? They can pour all the money the Koch's will give them into the project, but in the end, if the public won't plant their asses in seats, it's not going anywhere, even as propaganda.

[MineralMan]

34. Ah, another $10 saved some weekend...nt