Atlas Shrugged Dream Cast, Revisited
Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 7 months ago to Entertainment
Here I return to an earlier theme: what actors, among the greatest anyone could name, would make the best Atlas Shrugged cast? And by the way: price no object.
So here are my suggestions:
Dagny Taggart: Tilda Swinton. (She'd need a lot of make-up to look as young as she did in "The Chronicles of Narnia," but she could manage it.)
Henry Rearden: Daniel Craig (Or if we had done it a lot earlier, Laurence Harvey)
John Galt: Pierce Brosnan
Francisco d'Anconia: Antonio Banderas
Ragnar Danneskjöld: Dolph Lundgren (or perhaps Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Lillian Rearden: Christina Ricci
Mother Rearden: Angela Lansbury
Hugh Akston: Patrick Stewart
Midas Mulligan: Bruce Greenwood
Robert Stadler: Kurtwood Smith
Floyd Ferris: Peter Weller
Jim Taggart: Danny DeVito
Any other ideas?
So here are my suggestions:
Dagny Taggart: Tilda Swinton. (She'd need a lot of make-up to look as young as she did in "The Chronicles of Narnia," but she could manage it.)
Henry Rearden: Daniel Craig (Or if we had done it a lot earlier, Laurence Harvey)
John Galt: Pierce Brosnan
Francisco d'Anconia: Antonio Banderas
Ragnar Danneskjöld: Dolph Lundgren (or perhaps Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Lillian Rearden: Christina Ricci
Mother Rearden: Angela Lansbury
Hugh Akston: Patrick Stewart
Midas Mulligan: Bruce Greenwood
Robert Stadler: Kurtwood Smith
Floyd Ferris: Peter Weller
Jim Taggart: Danny DeVito
Any other ideas?
Previous comments...
Herewith my dream cast [Dr. Who time machine required]:
Dagny Taggart: Lauren Bacall. Or a young Kate Hepburn without the Connecticut accent.
Henry Rearden: Humphrey Bogart [and not just to keep Betty Bacall company].
John Galt: Clint Eastwood
Francisco d'Anconia: Pierce Brosnan, who has the dark looks to be a convincing D'Anconia.
Ragnar Danneskjöld: a young Eric Braeden [remember Rat Patrol?] or Peter Graves
Lillian Rearden: Patricia Neal
Mother Rearden: Joan Crawford
Hugh Akston: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Midas Mulligan: Edward G. Robinson
Robert Stadler: Armin Shimmerman
Floyd Ferris: Bradford Dillman
Jim Taggart: Burt Lancaster
Cheryl Taggart: Keira Knightley
But maybe I'd want to cast Donald Pleasence as Stadler, and Peter Cushing as Floyd Ferris.