Atlas Shrugged Part 3 Cast: Who is John Galt? _#ASP3
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Los Angeles, California - January 23, 2014 - Atlas Distribution Company announced today that “Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?” went into production on Monday, January 20th. The movie’s release is slated for September 2014.
The movie trilogy follows the three-part structure of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, “Atlas Shrugged.” The dystopian story takes place in a not-so-distant future with the nation’s economy approaching collapse. While overreaching government regulations persist in strangling the country’s few remaining entrepreneurs, society’s most productive have mysteriously disappeared.
At the helm of Part 3 will be seasoned award-winning Director Jim Manera who will be accompanied by Cinematographer, Gale Tattersall who previously worked as Director of Photography on Hugh Laurie's House M.D. as well as Tom Hanks' From Earth to the Moon.
“It’s very fulfilling for all us to be finishing the trilogy. Atlas Shrugged has impacted so many lives and we’re extremely proud to be bringing the final installment to the screen. The team we’ve assembled is nothing short of stellar. Part 3 is without question going to be the best of the trilogy.” said Producer John Aglialoro.
Atlas Distribution Company also announced today that the much anticipated role of John Galt will go to Kristoffer Polaha, an accomplished actor who, prior to working on Atlas, was profoundly influenced by Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.” Kris has been in a variety of television shows including Ringer (CW), alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Life Unexpected (CW). He will next be seen in a regular role alongside Rainn Wilson in Fox's new show, Backstrom. His feature credits include a supporting role in Devil's Knot, opposite Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth.
The role of Dagny Taggart, heroine COO of Taggart Transcontinental, will be played by Laura Regan who has appeared in the AMC hit Mad Men as well as the movie Unbreakable with Bruce Willis.
Producer Harmon Kaslow said, “We’ve always known that finding the right actor to play John Galt was going to be a huge challenge, but as soon as Kris walked in the room and said ‘Hello’, we knew we found him. Kris is John Galt. We couldn’t be more pleased. Laura and Kris already have great chemistry together. Atlas fans everywhere are going to be blown away.”
Rounding out the cast of “Atlas Shrugged” heroes are acclaimed actors Joaquim de Almeida as Francisco d’Anconia, Eric Allen Kramer as Ragnar Danneskjöld, and Rob Morrow as Hank Rearden, as well as a host of other veteran actors.
The prior two “Atlas Shrugged” movies are currently available on DVD & Blu-ray, iTunes, or streaming on Netflix and Amazon.
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Official Movie Web Site: http://www.WhoIsJohnGalt.com
Official Atlas Shrugged Forum: http://www.GaltsGulchOnline.com
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About Atlas Distribution Company
Atlas Distribution Company was formed by John Aglialoro to distribute the trilogy adaptation of Ayn Rand’s epic novel, Atlas Shrugged and other motion pictures. For more information, visit http://www.AtlasShruggedMovie.com.
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Check out some exclusive behind the scenes pics attached. Thanks to Eudaimonia for compiling the IMDB links.
John Galt - Kris Polaha - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119340
Dagny Taggart - Laura Regan - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716438
Francisco D'Anconia - Joaquim De Almeida - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0021835
Henry (Hank) Rearden - Rob Morrow - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001555
Ragnar Danneskjold - Eric Allen Kramer - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0469503
Hugh Akston - Stephen Tobolowski - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864997
Midas Mulligan - Mark Moses - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608601
Ellis Wyatt - Lew Temple - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0854702
Cherryl Taggart - Jen Nikolaisen - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0993212
Eddie Willers - Dominic Daniel - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1563320
James Taggart - Greg Germann - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314524
Head-of-State Thompson - Peter Mackenzie - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533380
Floyd Ferris - Neal McDonough - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568180
Wesley Mouch - Louis Herthum - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381043
Cuffy Meigs - Tony Denison - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219208
Clem Weatherby - Claude Knowlton - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461572
Gerald Starnes - Ned Vaugh - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891224
Los Angeles, California - January 23, 2014 - Atlas Distribution Company announced today that “Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?” went into production on Monday, January 20th. The movie’s release is slated for September 2014.
The movie trilogy follows the three-part structure of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, “Atlas Shrugged.” The dystopian story takes place in a not-so-distant future with the nation’s economy approaching collapse. While overreaching government regulations persist in strangling the country’s few remaining entrepreneurs, society’s most productive have mysteriously disappeared.
At the helm of Part 3 will be seasoned award-winning Director Jim Manera who will be accompanied by Cinematographer, Gale Tattersall who previously worked as Director of Photography on Hugh Laurie's House M.D. as well as Tom Hanks' From Earth to the Moon.
“It’s very fulfilling for all us to be finishing the trilogy. Atlas Shrugged has impacted so many lives and we’re extremely proud to be bringing the final installment to the screen. The team we’ve assembled is nothing short of stellar. Part 3 is without question going to be the best of the trilogy.” said Producer John Aglialoro.
Atlas Distribution Company also announced today that the much anticipated role of John Galt will go to Kristoffer Polaha, an accomplished actor who, prior to working on Atlas, was profoundly influenced by Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.” Kris has been in a variety of television shows including Ringer (CW), alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Life Unexpected (CW). He will next be seen in a regular role alongside Rainn Wilson in Fox's new show, Backstrom. His feature credits include a supporting role in Devil's Knot, opposite Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth.
The role of Dagny Taggart, heroine COO of Taggart Transcontinental, will be played by Laura Regan who has appeared in the AMC hit Mad Men as well as the movie Unbreakable with Bruce Willis.
Producer Harmon Kaslow said, “We’ve always known that finding the right actor to play John Galt was going to be a huge challenge, but as soon as Kris walked in the room and said ‘Hello’, we knew we found him. Kris is John Galt. We couldn’t be more pleased. Laura and Kris already have great chemistry together. Atlas fans everywhere are going to be blown away.”
Rounding out the cast of “Atlas Shrugged” heroes are acclaimed actors Joaquim de Almeida as Francisco d’Anconia, Eric Allen Kramer as Ragnar Danneskjöld, and Rob Morrow as Hank Rearden, as well as a host of other veteran actors.
The prior two “Atlas Shrugged” movies are currently available on DVD & Blu-ray, iTunes, or streaming on Netflix and Amazon.
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Official Movie Web Site: http://www.WhoIsJohnGalt.com
Official Atlas Shrugged Forum: http://www.GaltsGulchOnline.com
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About Atlas Distribution Company
Atlas Distribution Company was formed by John Aglialoro to distribute the trilogy adaptation of Ayn Rand’s epic novel, Atlas Shrugged and other motion pictures. For more information, visit http://www.AtlasShruggedMovie.com.
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Check out some exclusive behind the scenes pics attached. Thanks to Eudaimonia for compiling the IMDB links.
John Galt - Kris Polaha - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119340
Dagny Taggart - Laura Regan - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716438
Francisco D'Anconia - Joaquim De Almeida - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0021835
Henry (Hank) Rearden - Rob Morrow - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001555
Ragnar Danneskjold - Eric Allen Kramer - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0469503
Hugh Akston - Stephen Tobolowski - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864997
Midas Mulligan - Mark Moses - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608601
Ellis Wyatt - Lew Temple - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0854702
Cherryl Taggart - Jen Nikolaisen - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0993212
Eddie Willers - Dominic Daniel - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1563320
James Taggart - Greg Germann - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314524
Head-of-State Thompson - Peter Mackenzie - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533380
Floyd Ferris - Neal McDonough - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568180
Wesley Mouch - Louis Herthum - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381043
Cuffy Meigs - Tony Denison - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219208
Clem Weatherby - Claude Knowlton - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461572
Gerald Starnes - Ned Vaugh - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891224
That said, Mouch should be more weasely looking, and Thompson more snivilish. I think that Gregory Itzin (played President Logan on 24) would have been perfect for Thompson, and perhaps Gilbert Gottfried as Mouch?
2. The special effects in Part II sucked.
3. If and when a remake is done, I would prefer continuity in the casting and a larger budget.
I'm not saying I hate Parts I and II. The story, itself, is what this is all about. I loved "The Man from Earth", even though the entire movie took place in and around a wood cabin. It was the story that kept me entranced.
So, Spielberg, Lucas, Jackson...how about it?
I was rather crude in my comment about the special effects in Part II. After watching the movie, again, I decided that they weren't THAT bad (I've seen worse).
Considering the budget, I guess the tunnel collapse was okay.
Hey, what do you expect from a Moocher :-)
LOL! Yes, I'm sure the producers changed cast for each installment because they thought it was "interesting" to do so.
>Can't we all be John Galt?
I'm sure that's what the producers had in mind: "John Galt is the proverbial Everyman."
I doubt that's what Ayn Rand in mind, though.
I think that AR would have supported every man being a John Galt.
Economic reasons? How could that be when the producers always stated that each installment was "fully funded"? You're suggesting they're incompetent at budgeting?
The "economic reasons" were simple: To date, each installment has died at the box office. In each case, the producers thought, perhaps, it had been their casting, so they recast each installment.
> - or the actors chose not to sign on again for fear of retribution.
LOL! If it makes you feel better to believe that fairytale, go right ahead.
>I think that AR would have supported every man being a John Galt.
Sure. Everyone knows that Atlas Shrugged has a silver lining of democratic egalitarianism running through it. John Galt is not an elite man; he's EVERYMAN!
Nice one.
'Cosmic coin tossing in quantum gravity',
in which unification of hyper-negativity with pseudo-objectivism is validated with antiheteronormativistic formulations.
On the casting, Amusing that the 20-year gap produces two kinds of response- 1. shock, and 2. smirk.
Well I think that acting, direction and make-up can do a lot.
Sure! Start a linguistics thread; I'd be happy to comment (one of my favorite subjects).
> I liked you then
Awwwwwww. XOXOXOXOXOXOXO
Ragnar's was not what I picture, but I think this guy could pull it off.
I liked cast #1 the best, and I'm glad we have a new cast. Keeping cast #2 would have made cast #1 seem out of place. Now one cast has no more "weight" than any other. Looking forward to Part III!
They didn't even keep the characters' ages consistent from one part to the next. They pretty much all looked 15 years older in part 2 than in 1, and now Dagny loses half of that back. (Maybe Eddie and Hank and James do too, I haven't looked at their pictures.)
Someday soon, all three movies will be available on one DVD or in a boxed set. Someone will pick them up without having read the book, watch them in order, and be confused as all hell.
My biggest casting gripe: Armin Schimmerman. The man was put on Earth to play a Rand bureaucrat, and all he got was a cameo in part 1.
If someone does AS again in the future, it shouldn't be a movie. It should be a TV miniseries, 6 to 8 parts, 90 minutes to 2 hours each. That's how I envisioned it when I read the book in 1971, before there had ever been such a thing as a miniseries.
Of course not. But the producers can try to make some of their money back by marketing the DVDs exclusively to hard-core Objectivists who might purchase several copies of each installment. Then the producers might try to market t-shirts, coffee mugs, bobble-head dolls, action figures (with movable limbs), a board game, a video game, etc.
So even when it fails at the box office and generates lots of negative reviews among critics, the producers can market the trilogy precisely based on that! For example, they could create a board game (instead of passing "Go" and collecting $200, you pass through "Galt's Gulch" and get an ounce of gold from Ragnar) and market it with slogans like, "The culture is too depraved, and audiences too irrational to have appreciated the great achievement of the AS trilogy! Play 'Going Galt' and escape to a modern-day Atlantis! Only $39.99." Etc.
I first read Atlas in 1964 during my college years and have lived according to the lessons I learned from it and other of Ms. Rand's books. Specifically self conduct and expectation of others to do the same. You have failed the test. You don't really believe in the philosophy.
I am saddened to realize that you don't really care about the book or its message.
That's where you're wrong. Kaslow and Aglialoro believe wholeheartedly in Objectivism.
> am saddened to realize that you don't really care about the book or its message.
No, what Kaslow and Aglialoro don't really care about is serious filmmaking. You don't have to be an Objectivist to produce a movie version of Atlas Shrugged, or adapt it to the screen, or direct it, or star in it; you just have to know how to produce, write, direct, and act. Those skills and talents are what they are; they are not dependent upon one being an Objectivist; conversely, being an Objectivist gives one no special advantage in making a compelling movie of a prophetic book.
(By the way, don't you just love the fact that D'Anconia and Galt were supposed to have gone to college together (and the former, a former suitor of Dagny's), yet the producers cast actors who are 20 years apart in age? Nice one!)
Please reconsider some of them, especially Ragnar, Francisco, and Rearden.
It seems that Lew Temple - although not "pretty" as Ragnar was described in the book - is at least in the same age range. In addition, I still feel that in order to keep the right look for d'Anconia, someone such as Eduardo Verastegui would have been nearly perfect. Yes, he speaks with an accent, but who cares. He looks the part and isn't as far out of the age range as De Almeida. Who thought THAT was a good idea?!?
I like the look of the new Dagny, but as someone else mentioned, Cheryl is way too pretty for someone who Jim married because she admired him and he felt sorry for her. The jewel of the casting decisions was Greg Germann as Jim Taggart. He plays smarmy well, and fits the part as an older brother. Now who (if anyone) is going to be Lillian Reardon? Still like the original casting for that.
And for those who were wondering why Eddie Willers was a black man in the movie but not in the book - diversity at the time that the book was written was pretty much non-existent. That's not a reflection on Rand; it is what it is. So casting Eddie Willers as a minority was a stroke of genius in my opinion and reflected the more modern mindset.
I thought the same thing originally about Eddie WIlers. And then - there IS the whole age thing, which is the rub... Wilers, Dannesjköld, D'Ancona, Galt, Dagny, even to some extent Hank, Hammond, Sanders, and some of the *younger* (eg 30's to 40's) producers - are somewhat cotemporary in age. I think, if "make-up" does their job, De Almeida could be made to look young enough (and as such will stomp the D'Anconia role) to nullify the 20 year discontunuity between his age and his "contemporaries" in the book. Otherwise, he won't look as an age contemporary to those he must, if Rand knew what she was doing in writing the characters.
It'd be the same issue (maybe worse) if Nick Cage did Galt... his age is too far removed from those who are also supposed to be of that generation. (Now... Nicolas Cage, as either James Taggart, Dagny's older brother, or better yet - Mr. Thompson - Woohoo! He is just devestating enough to make either of those parts.)
It's all visual continuity... it'd be like having an Eucalyptus tree in the Gulch, where the altitude, climate, and location wouldn't support such a thing. ;-)
C'mon, tho... you KNOW it'll be a good movie. The hardest part is, we ALL know (heck, memorized, and live) the story line here, so we perhaps are the most critical audience. Most of us know these people from Rand inside out - unlike the average moviegoing audience who has not read AS, and would not catch if D'Anconia was 20 years too old to be Dagny's age when they grew up together.
I still say Jason Statham as Rearden
I still say Esai Morales as D'Anconia
I still say Diane Kruger as Dagny
I still say Chris Hemsworth as Ragnar
I still say Nicholas Cage as Galt
(close your eyes and imagine this calm, quiet voice delivering the John Galt speech - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPiXax0S3...)
IF we're going to recast it...
And I still say D.B. Sweeney would have been a great Galt.
Why was Willers cast as a black character? I never got that impress from the book.
Also too naturally snarky.
That would be cool, though; Don Cheadle as Galt, Stacey Dash as Dagny (thought I forgot about her, huh? sigh....)
Or is chicken soup that effective?
I dunno what the fuck it is; half the store is down with it (an abnormal use of the word "down"; they're sick but still working). Some kind of flu, which slowly works its way into the lungs via the sinuses. You can tell how long someone has had it by the symptoms they exhibit.
I've been fighting it myself for 2 weeks; I expect I'll have another week to go before I'm rid of it.
I'm excited because this is just another sign that we'll soon be seeing this great finale.
Almeida's face is too familiar, and he doesn't look like a man of action.
No offense to Eric allen Kramer, but when I first looked him up, I instantly remembered him as Bear doing the dance off with Stifler in American Wedding. That image does not lend itself to him playing the role of a warrior/philosopher, AND he's nearly 51 years old. Galt, Francisco and Ragnar are all supposed to be roughly the same age, and that is supposed to be mid 30s or so.
Also, Joaquim De Almeida as Francisco? WTF? He's 57 for crying out loud. Laura Regan as Dagny was born is 1977 and the Francisco they pick that was supposed to grow up with her and be her lover was born in 1957? I don't get it.
currently:
Wesley Mouch - Louis Herthum
Ragnar Danneskjold - Eric Allen Kramer -
proposed:
Wesley Mouch - Eric Allen Kramer
Ragnar Danneskjold - - Louis Herthum
As to a new cast for ASIII - it actually makes sense, since 1 & 2 were different casts. If you brought either back for III it would have created a strange lopsidedness to the series.
No, thanks. I'll follow Dagny's example and trust my own judgment.
Professionals?
Obviously not professional film producers.
Kaslow is a professional lawyer and Aglialoro is a professional businessman. I haven't seen a single thing they've done as film producers — including their interviews either in print or on video — that's professional.
And, just last night I found myself in a Hank moment. I worked late at a client's house, closing a good deal. It wasn't too far from home (about a mile) so I walked home through the darkness. It was nice, and reminded me of Rearden's chosen commute.
I think the only change I'd make is have Louis Herthum play Hank Rearden. Somehow he just looks the part to me - pretty much as I imagined him in the book in fact, but that's just a personal preference.
Jen Nikolaisen = well buff, bordering on peng!
we're struggling with ragnar a bit
I also know from many,many years of being peripherally involved with live regional theater, that physical attributes come in a distant second to what the actor brings to each roll. Owning the character, killing the part, however you want to phrase it, as long as you bring something real, something meaningful, something interesting or memorable to your work, then it is yours and it is something your audience will appreciate.
Except for two things:
1) Theater is not film, and stage acting is not film acting. Billy Wilder had lots to say about that when he was directing Shirley MacLaine (I think it was in "The Apartment", with Jack Lemmon). She had been studying Method Acting, I suppose with Lee Strasberg, and kept badgering Wilder for her "motivation" in this or that scene. Wilder finally snapped, "Oh, cut the crap!"
Theater may be the "actor's medium" but film has long been the "director's medium."
2) Unfortunately, the Atlas trilogy is neither the actors' medium nor the director's medium. From what I understand, creative choices must conform to what a "Philosophical Consultant" (David Kelley) believes is a "correct" interpretation, or application, of Objectivism. So an actor (or a director) must subordinate an original, creative choice to Kelley's dictates.
An actor (or a director) trying to work under such restrictive circumstances would soon stop trying to make any original, bold, creative choices, and opt instead for stiff, uninspired line readings of the script, and stiff, uninspired blocking, etc.
Now, isn't that what audiences suffered through in Parts I and II? Yes.
The funny part is, the producers somehow agreed to all this (written in a contract, perhaps?), and yet they always reflexively assumed that it must be the actors' fault (or the director's) that the movies never grew any "legs" at the box office, or at least earned some critical encomia. That's why they recast, both below-the-line and above-the-line, in all 3 films.
Yes, a director or producer can quash the otherwise inspired work of an actor and ruin a film. I remain optimistic that ASP3's company will rise to the challenge of finding a way to connect with its audience.
Unfortunately, Rand's goal was on creating characters whose prime focus was on expounding her objectivist philosophy. In most cases this resulted in 2 dimensional caricatures. It will be the job of great actors to add the necessary 3rd dimension so the people can connect with both the character and the philosophy. Hopefully the director/producers will get this, this time out. We can all recall any number of memorable character portrayals from films over the years. I cannot recall a single portrayal of just an idea in film without its associated character. And it was always the strength of the character rather than the strength of the idea that made it memorable.
Sure.
John Galt
Dagny Taggart
James Taggart
Francisco D'Anconia
Wesley Mouch
Eddie Willers
Quentin Daniels
The Wet Nurse
All the evil characters in AS
Good question. I hesitated about Rearden because I think he's the most fleshed-out character in AS. From today's vantage point, of course, he comes across as just plain neurotic in some respects — e.g., his insane jealousy over Dagny's sexual past (c'mon, guy, of course she's slept around before you). Rand goes to great lengths to show his shortcomings and how they limit his success in certain areas of life, and also how he tries to deal with them as he becomes increasingly aware of them.
So that's why I didn't include him.
What about Dagny's inability to accept leaving the rest of the world to burn?
An intellectual issue for her, but not one that says anything one way or the other about her character. That's why there's something 2-dimensional about her: she's not conflicted enough to do something really surprising or unexpected from the reader's point of view.
This, however, doesn't change the fact that Atlas Shrugged is Dagny's story: it's really her struggle to overcome obstacles and challenges that drives the storyline. But when you compare the "beginning-of-the-story-Dagny" with the "end-of-the-story-Dagny," there's no great change in her values or personality. Some of her larger intellectual philosophical premises have changed, of course! But if you compare the beginning Rearden to the end Rearden, his philosophical premises are not just different, but he's a very different sort of man.
So although I think Dagny is the most important character in the novel — technically, the "main character", or the "protagonist" — I think Rearden is the most interesting character, and the one whose inner conflicts are most fully worked out.
I said "the societal standards". By the standards of society of that age, women were not supposed to fuck until they were married, and then only with their husbands.
that "the big city" was full of sluts doesn't change the standard of the era.
And Rearden wouldn't be the first audulterer who expected his playmate to be a virgin.
Besides, by the rest of the back story for her, aside from D'Anconia, she *was* a virgin. No interest in or time for boys, remember?
If you really suggest that society at large in the 1950s was "okay" with a single woman sleeping around... what color is the sky on your planet?
(I'm not surprised; modern people for decades have formed the habit of thinking the past is just the same as the present, just with different clothes. That's why they have no rational explanation for the deterioration of society since then.)
and ' how can she be a protagonist and a slut?'
Oddly, I think we get to see more character development with Cherryl Taggart than anyone else in the novel.
Then what's your explanation for the lack of evolution of Hank and Dagny? Adulterers are not those "of good moral character".
Read more at http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/38...
And I'm leaving your little pastie in there. I still resent like hell you inserting something into the paste buffer of MY computer. Just hope I don't figure out a way to feed you back a virus...
I think that's absolutely true. During my last reading of AS — summer of 2009 — I almost stopped reading when I got to the sequence with Cherryl. Beautifully written and almost unbearably painful.
I must say that the single scummiest thing James Taggart does throughout that novel — even including his political machinations — is his manipulation of Cherryl. You could actually write a whole screenplay just about that one sequence.
Film is also RIFE with directors having the final say on what shall remain memorable in a film and what shall remain forgettable.
It isn't like stage, where an actor can spontaneously vary some aspect of the performance.
>Two obvious, high profile, examples would be Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow...
The point being, whatever "Keith Richards" flavor he brought to Jack Sparrow either received the stamp of approval from the director or did not. Again, it's not a theater context.
>Yes, a director or producer can quash the otherwise inspired work of an actor and ruin a film.
Or a director can reign in an actor who might be inclined to go "over the top" during a take.
>I remain optimistic that ASP3's company will rise to the challenge of finding a way to connect with its audience.
In other words, you're admitting that the first two casts didn't connect with their audiences. I agree. I also think it was not entirely the fault of the cast, but the fault of the producers, the screenwriter, and the director.
Since Part 3 is being produced under the same sort of conditions as Parts 1 and 2 — with David Kelley inspecting everything to check for its "Objectivist purity," And I expect the same sort of results.
But yes, I agree that a director, etc can take an inspired performance and destroy it with poor direction, editing, etc. Just like a mediocre engineer can take a ton of Reardon metal and produce garbage with it. It doesn't make the initial material any less valuable, it just wastes it. In commenting on the cast I was expressing hope that the director/producers will at least be given something inspired to work with.
WRT ASP1 & 2, I think the results were obvious. Regardless, I did enjoy seeing (along with the 6 other audience members for Part 2) the attempt to bring the story to the screen. I don't know who's effort came up short for 1 & 2, but in looking at the experience of 3's cast, I think we've got an improved troupe of players.
---->"Dagny Taggart, heroin COO..."
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