I always thought The Fountainhead would make a good television show. Like a Netflix series.

Not sure who should play Roark though....

It was made into a movie in 1949. It would be great to see a remake though.,

Ayn Rand's first major novel We the Living was also made into a movie in fascist Italy, unknown to Ayn Rand at the time. The Italian production followed the novel closely but some brief dialogue had to be imposed praising the fascist ideology to get it past the censors.The Mussolini government eventually figured out that the theme in the plot about communist Russia applied equally to itself, which was why the movie became so popular in Italy.

It was squashed by the government but revived many years later by friends of Ayn Rand who discovered it had been made and eventually tracked down a copy that had been hidden away in Italy during the war, then reissued it in America under Ayn Rand's control.

It was produced in Italian so the American reissue has subtitles. The artificial fascist slogans were replaced in the dialogue and the integrity of the plot and theme restored. Ayn Rand said that she thought the Italian film of We the Living was better done than The Fountainhead and liked the lead actress playing Kira very much. It's now available on DVD with extended background material on the production and history.

The existing movie of The Fountainhead was abbreviated but it was a really good film. The casting was excellent. Rand wrote the script so you knew the essence of the story was intact. A remake either as a TV special or movie would be great, but don't expect it to be a blockbuster. It only has one explosion.

The 1949 production of "The Fountainhead" is not a perfect movie but it is pretty good. Ayn Rand wrote the screen play and had artistic control over much of the film Check out the IMDB and Wikipedia coverage of the production. Rand's philosophy comes through quite clearly as do the motives and agendas of the villains. Twohey is a truly despicable person. Rand's penchant for revealing her protagonist's perspective by means of a courtroom drama is handled nicely in the film. It is definitely well worth watching.

I have the 1949 movie version on DVD, which I bought from Amazon. I remember that actor Ron Ely, who played Tarzan in the TV series, was trying to make another movie of The Fountainhead back in the early '80's, but nothing ever came of it. I think he would have been pretty good in role of Howard Roark.

I just finished The Fountainhead - wahoo, I am still dreaming ..

Hollywood would ruin Fountainhead.
I wouldn't trust any country's movie industry to do it justice for political reasons.
If it was made into a TV series today, Dominique Francon would be the main character and she would have super powers including unerring prophesy and ability to beat Peter Keating and Gail Wynand at arm wrestling simultaneously. Howard Roark would be found guilty of terrorism and given a sentence of 100 years of public service, and of rape and be sentenced to licking Dominique's boots clean. Ellsworth Toohey would have "invented the internet" and would maintain control of all media. Peter Keating would be the Republican speaker of the house.

I didn't know there was a Fountainhead movie from 1949. I'll have to find it.