Looking forward to the meeting. As long as it is not in an Italian Restaurant with red and white checkered table cloths and Al definitely does not act permission to go to the bathroom.

Awesome.

This is a dream coming into reality.

The TV series would create greater accessibility to a much larger audience and open the doors still further to Rand's philosophy.

"Just Do It!"

Not a question but please Al....do the series!!!

I am afraid I cannot be a Galt's Producer. I under-
stand that money has to be paid, which I cannot
afford right now.--Anyway, if it is to be a TV series
(you mean a mini-series,right?--It just has to have a
beginning, middle and end) I hope it will be better
than the movie, which didn't begin to do justice
to the book. (Being a Puritanical Victorian prude,
I also hope there would be no cleavage or other
nudity in it, though there are ways it could be
suggested without actually doing it). I have often thought about how it could be done. Ayn
Rand was a screen writer before she became a
famous novelist, and some of the scenes read
like instructions to a cameraman. For instance,
the scene where Hank Rearden stands up in
front of a lamp, and that makes it look as if the
light is coming from under his skin. And the
scene where Philip Rearden goes and demands
that Rearden give him a job, and says he could
have his government friends force him to. And
Rearden, who has been walking away, stops and
looks back, and then there is a description of
the machinery at work, and how dangerous it is,
and Philip's terror of the place, and the implica-
tion, which sort of suggests---he'd better not.
Also, that Winston Tunnel episode would make
a very good episode all by itself. It could start
with the accidental stoppage, and then the rail-
road workers making some routine comments in
conversation, revealing the facts about the train-
master's brother's suicide (maybe with the ad-
dition of the trainmaster's mental flashback of
his disappointment in the news office, which
refused to publish the story of the suicide), Bill
Brent's engagement, etc. And, when the train
goes into the tunnel, the names and occupations
of the guilty passengers, (the schoolteacher,
etc.), with little flashbacks showing a clip of the
teacher and how she behaves in the classroom,
the others and their favorite sayings, each of
these with his name and occupation displayed
in writing on the screen. And then it goes into
the tunnel. The book does not show the actual
cave-in. Dagny hears about it on a radio broad-
cast. And just having it go in there, without ac-
tually showing it,makes it more ominous and
horrifying.--And other things like that could be
done.

I have been an Objectivist since 1962. I say this only to point out I am not antagonistic to Objectivism.

To me, the Atlas Shrugged movie left a tremendous amount to be desired by anyone examining the philosophy. Disregarding the “explanations” offered for the poor quality, the fact remains the defects were legion. Francisco in Part III, for example, looked old enough to be Dagny’s father or grandfather — not a lover. Dagny in Part III looked like a teenager.

There were some excellent actors in each of the three parts, and if they had been assembled into one consistent story, I think they would have done a superb job. If Atlas is made into a TV series, can you avoid the (well-warranted) criticisms of the movie?

Rand's characters do not translate to film/TV easily because her hero's do not express normal emotions, which makes them flat on screen. It will be necessary to give the heroes a wider range of emotion than Rand did in the book. In my opinion this is the one area where you can see the influence of Nietzsche in Rand's fiction.

Rand also made her villains impotent. She had valid philosophical reasons for doing this, however it makes them less interesting and will not translate as well to a general audience.

I am always suspicious of liberals who volunteer for something like this. Usually they want to trash Ayn Rand and libertarian philosophy in front of a bunch of stupid, ignorant and gullible TV viewers.

Most people today only know socialism. An AS SERIES COULD DO A LOT OF GOOD by showing how objectivist principles can make a better world even for the people who have learned to depend on socialism Showing a path forward from where we are now. AS didn't do that- it showed a declining society. A new AS series could show how we can actually climb out of our decline

Is the talk about a TV series real?