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Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

Oldboy — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:03:03 EDT

@moff: Huh?

Oldboy

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

moff — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:47:00 EDT

@Oldboy: I say, "I want full stake in the Arby's franchise we bought outside of Telluride."

moff

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

Oldboy — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:06:22 EDT

@moff: I'd much rather see a biopic about Rand than any of her books. What do you say to Isabella Rosselini?

Oldboy

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

NinaHagen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:11:04 EDT

@Baronzemo: Shit - that's a thesis!

NinaHagen

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

famousauthor — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:50:27 EDT

@Baronzemo: I nominate Wilford Brimley to play Harry S. Truman.

famousauthor

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

Baronzemo — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:04:22 EDT

The best cult novels should never be made into movies, but then I can't think of too many films where the bad guy is based on Harry S. Truman

Baronzemo

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

postmanagitator — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:48:07 EDT

@moff: I know this to be true. I was truly obsessed with her throughout high school and rode the Objectivist wave. Then I gave up the quest of being my own hero and became a hempmilk-loving Brooklyn pothead instead.

postmanagitator

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

Dr. Spaceman, Esq. — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:06:44 EDT

Wow, this will surely be as successful as previous crazy-cult fare such as Battlefield Earth!

Dr. Spaceman, Esq.

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

moff — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:51:30 EDT

@ADismalScience: Dude, she resonates -- I mean, anyone who can turn a book about a new kind of metal into a serious page-turner is a talented writer -- and her ideals aren't nearly as appalling as they're often made out to be, but her seeming beliefs about how to realize them are just as unlikely as those of any rainbow-loving San Francisco pothead who wants to teach the world to sing.

Still, I bet the sex was really dirty with her.

moff

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

moff — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:44:23 EDT

@ADismalScience: Heh. Nice.

moff

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

famousauthor — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:43:49 EDT

Those pictures clearly show that Angelina Jolie is actually the granddaughter of Ayn Rand. You can tell by the lips. The question is whether or not Alan Greenspan figures in the family tree.

famousauthor

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

PoopsieDoodle — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:43:01 EDT

And when I say "I was thinking Matt Damon," I meant as a Hollywood producer's choice, not necessarily MY choice.

Roberty Downey Jr. and Kevin Spacey are my choices, though. They would rock.

PoopsieDoodle

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

PoopsieDoodle — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:40:17 EDT

Oh, and Kevin Spacey as Toohey. P. E. R. F. E. C. T.

PoopsieDoodle

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

PoopsieDoodle — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:37:54 EDT

If they do "The Fountainhead," they MUST! MUST! MUST! cast Robert Downey Jr. as Gail Wynand. I was kind of picturing him the entire time I read the book. He'd be absolutely perfect.
It's kind of funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday, and I considered Brad Pitt as Roarke, but he just doesn't seem "different" enough. If you've read the book, you know what I mean. I was thinking Matt Damon, actually... but I'd much, much rather they went with an unknown for that part.

PoopsieDoodle

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

Mediahohoho — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:21:04 EDT

With Rob Schneider in the lead, I don't see how it can miss.

Mediahohoho

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

NinaHagen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:20:56 EDT

@NinaHagen: across - you got too excited...

NinaHagen

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

NinaHagen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:20:24 EDT

@La Cieca: Wait - no riding crop acrooss Coop's glorious face? That's my favorite part!

NinaHagen

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

Gyrus — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:12:19 EDT

If he were a real Randian, he'd follow the example set by John Galt and stage a walk out of all the top executives in Hollywood and crash the system. Imagien a world without Hollywood films! That'd sure show us.

Gyrus

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

ADismalScience — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:07:47 EDT

Also, I'd pay to see the 12-hour epic cinema version of The Fountainhead. I loves it so. I'm not a total believer in Randian ethics, but I believe she wrote some powerful work that resonated with me.

Go ahead. Hate me.

ADismalScience

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

ADismalScience — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:06:26 EDT

@moff:

You're finally coming around!

ADismalScience

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

moff — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:56:28 EDT

@VirusWithShoes: I hope that tendency toward redundance isn't typical of your work, sir!

moff

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

VirusWithShoes — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:55:05 EDT

@moff: You forgot "and a Democrat".

VirusWithShoes

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

moff — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:45:56 EDT

@Sarcastro: Apologies for that outburst.

@VirusWithShoes: Then we are of one mind: This movie will only be good if everyone involved commits themselves to creating a product of the highest possible quality, and anyone who interferes with that most laudable end is reprehensible, and probably a giant loser-pussy, too.

moff

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

La Cieca — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:45:04 EDT

@GraniteInMyVeins: indeed!

La Cieca

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

dweeb — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:43:39 EDT

Howard Roark procreated.

dweeb

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

VirusWithShoes — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:39:55 EDT

@moff: I'd love to say that was both clever and funny, but I'm doing the same thing as you.

VirusWithShoes

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

GraniteInMyVeins — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:38:45 EDT

Gary Cooper + Patricia Neal > Any two yahoos to play them in the awful remake.

GraniteInMyVeins

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

penis_in_a_rowboat — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:36:09 EDT

Finally something to cheer up the execs in our struggling financial sector.

penis_in_a_rowboat

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

Sarcastro — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:34:53 EDT

@moff: Whatever, hothead.

Sarcastro

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

moff — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:33:06 EDT

I'd like to get excited about this, but I believe it's essential to sublimate one's emotions and listen only to cold, dispassionate reason.

moff

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

RonMwangaguhunga — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:28:16 EDT

Ayn Rand, a credit to her philosphy of absolute selfishness, never shook her Russian accent even after decades in America. Buckley, the lifelong Catholic, always described her infamous line as sounding like "But you ahr too smart to believe in Gott!" It was, you can imagine, a dealbreaker moment between the two right-of-centrists.

RonMwangaguhunga

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

TedSez — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:27:15 EDT

They made this already -- it's called "Mad Men," and it's fantastic.

TedSez

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

Sarcastro — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:25:45 EDT

I find myself feeling a bit Rand-y.

Sarcastro

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

The Dewd — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:24:36 EDT

What the world needs is a remake of the Passion of Ayn Rand. 2 hours of a dowdy old bat talking about the logic of her extramarital affair. I coulnd't get enough.

The Dewd

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

nonpareil — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:23:53 EDT

For a good dose of Randian dystopia done a la video game, I highly recommend all you monkeys play a game called BIOSHOCK.

nonpareil

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

VirusWithShoes — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:22:29 EDT

Angelina Jolie is staring at a plastic bag caught in a tree in that photo.

VirusWithShoes

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

kokotaylor — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:19:45 EDT

Alan Greenspan just spluged in his pants

kokotaylor

Movie Rights to Godless Ayn Rand Novel Acquired From Catholics

Randall Tex Cobb — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:13:47 EDT

Proves my point, Catholics control the media.

Randall Tex Cobb