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ATLAS SHRUGGED FILM PRODUCERS, DIRECTOR TO SPEAK AT ATLAS 50TH CELEBRATION! Submitted by The Atlas Society on Fri, 2007-09-28 04:56.
We've just received word that the producers and director of the Atlas Shrugged movie will be joining us at our October 6, 2007 50th anniversary celebration of the publication of Ayn Rand's epic novel. These will include Michael Burns, a longtime admirer of Rand and the vice chairman of Lionsgate studio, which is producing the film. With him will be producers Howard and Karen Baldwin, the team that gave us the Oscar-winning film Ray, as well as executive producer and Atlas Society trustee John Aglialoro. Also expected is Vadim Perelman, the director of House of Sand and Fog, who is being tapped to direct the film of Rand's novel that's still a best seller after half a century. Their remarks will be during the lunch or dinner portions of the program. Details will be posted on The Atlas Society's website. At this celebration you'll also hear leading scholars, experts and achievers discuss the literary, philosophical, moral, economic and political aspects of Atlas Shrugged and its impact on our world-- past, present and future. Our keynote speakers are John Stossel of ABC's 20/20 show and Charles Murray, libertarian scholar. And we have as panel moderators Nigel Ashford of the Institute for Humane Studies; Douglas Rasmussen of St. John's University; Robert Bidinotto, the award-winning editor of our magazine The New Individualist; and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal. (See full schedule below.) Celebrate with others who love the book. Don't miss the excitement! If your life and thinking were changed by Atlas Shrugged, this is a day you won't want to miss! When: Saturday, October 6, 2007, 8:00am- 9:00pm. Conference and banquet location: Merriott Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001. Afternoon Reception: The Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 And if you need a hotel room in D.C. and missed securing one at the conference venue, we have posted a nu mber of alternatives for you on our website at the bottom of the page! You can get further information, updates and register online at Atlasevents.org . Seminar costs for entire day, reception at the Cato Institute and gala banquet: $210 before September 28; $250 after September 28; $150 student rate. (Some scholarships available.) For additional hotel options, visit our website at w ww.atlassoc iety.org The Program: 8:00-9:00am -- Registration 9:00am -- Welcoming Remarks: *Edward Hudgins, executive director, The Atlas Society 9:15-10:30am -- Panel One *Anne Heller, author of an upcoming biography on Ayn Rand -- "Atlas and Rand's Life" *Mimi Gladstein, author of Atlas Shrugged: A Reader's Companion-- "Atlas and Rand the Writer" *David Kelley, founder and senior fellow, The Atlas Society -- "Atlas in Academia" 10:30-11:00am -- Coffee Break 11:00am-12:15pm -- Panel Two *Tibor Machan, professor, Chapman University, philosopher and author -- "Atlas and Ethics" *William Thomas, director of program, The Atlas Society -- "Atlas and Loving Life" *David Mayer, professor of law and history, Capital University -- "Atlas and the American Revolution" 12:30-1:45pm -- Luncheon speaker: Charles Murray -- "Atlas and Achievement" 2:00-3:15pm -- Panel Three *Edward Younkins, professor of economics, Wheeling Jesuit University -- "Atlas and Economics" *Ed Snider, chairman, Comcast Spectacor -- "Atlas and the Entrepreneur" *Rob Bradley, president, Institute for Energy Research -- "Atlas and Business Ethics" 3:15-3:30pm -- Coffee Break 3:30-4:45pm -- Panel Four *Fred Smith, president, Competitive Enterprise Institute -- "Atlas and Politics" *Edward Crane, president, The Cato Institute -- "Atlas and the Fight for Freedom" *Edward Hudgins, executive director, The Atlas Society -- "Atlas & the Future of Objectivism" 5:00-6:15pm -- Reception at the Cato Institute. *Reflections on Atlas Shrugged by Nathaniel Branden and Barbara Branden. 6:30-9:00pm -- Gala Banquet With Atlas Shrugged Movie Updates *Keynote: John Stossel, "Atlas and America Today." *Final Remarks: David Kelley Register today! ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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New Director for Atlas Shrugged Movie
I'll admit I am not an expert on movie directors and who might be the very best person for this, but I think the mood created by Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven could make him a candidate. He is somewhat conservative and seems to be fairly individualistic. He sure didn't take any crap from Spike Lee. I like a man like that. I think he can bring a real understanding of what Rand was saying to film.
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BREAKING: Vadim Perelman Shrugs off 'Atlas'
by Kim Voynar Jun 19th 2008 // 10:28AM
Filed under: Deals, Newsstand
here's some news I've been hoping to write up for a long while now ...
director Vadim Perelman has officially dropped the adaptation of Atlas Shrugged, which is presumably still set to star Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggart. Perelman signed on to the project last September, and as recently as April ComingSoon.net reported that the project was still a go.
It may or may not still be moving forward, but I have it from the most
reliable source possible -- Perelman himself -- that it will not be
going forward with him at the helm.
CHUD wrote up this piece about Angelina Jolie supposedly telling MTV
that Perelman was never signed to direct at all -- something Perelman
finds interesting, since he had a signed contract that attached him,
and Lionsgate (not Perelman, as CHUD asserts, though Perelman has done
interviews about his attachment to the project) had put out many press
releases announcing him as the director. Perelman was attached, and I
can say with as much certainty as one can possibly have about a
situation like this that the decision to step down was on Perelman's
side.
While this may seem like bad news for all those Objectivists out there who were frothing at the bit to finally see Atlas on the big screen, it's great news for fans of Perelman, who directed one of my favorite films ever, House of Sand and Fog, and more recently The Life Before Her Eyes, which I enjoyed, even if 75% of my fellow critics didn't agree. I never felt Atlas was the right project for Perelman -- he's a very visual, artsy, poetic director, and Atlas Shrugged,
for what literary merits it does have, is hardly poetic; it's a
rationale for and description of a philosophy within the form of a
novel.
So many attempts at adapting Atlas Shrugged have been tried
and failed that, if I was a betting chick (which I have been known to
be, on occasion) I certainly wouldn't put my hard-earned money on the
film ever getting done at this point. As Eugene noted back in April,
this is one book that's practically unfilmable; the book weighs in at
over 1,000 pages, and John Galt's speech near the end rambles on for
what would be probably two hours of film time if it were scripted in
its entirety.
They'd have to cut the hell out of the speech to put it in a movie,
and then there would ensue much moaning, wailing and gnashing of teeth
among Objectivist circles over the parts that were left out , no matter
how they did it. Personally, I think if you're gonna adapt Atlas Shrugged, suck it up and do it as a week-long HBO miniseries or something, rather than butchering it entirely.
I wouldn't hold your breath for Jolie to stick around on the project
either -- it's not like she doesn't have a stack of scripts sitting on
her nightstand -- but, who knows? She's said to be a fan of the book,
so if she wants to see it on the big screen, perhaps she'll stick
around to see who the new director will be.
So, now that Perelman is off Atlas Shrugged, who would you
like to see helm the project now, assuming it goes forward at all? I
can't imagine that a director who's staunchly opposed to Objectivism as
a philosophy would take it on, which pretty much leaves out the
hard-core liberals. So who would that leave who might possibly lead the
project to completion, without the end result being absolutely wretched?
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.- - Robert Green Ingersoll
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Big Ed
We've had Crane as a speaker at our events before. He is highly visible here in D.C. and we'll be having a reception at Cato in the late afternoon after the panels for our Atlas 50th event.
You can hear Big Ed on the audio set of our Ayn Rand Centenary Celebration on Capitol Hill from 2005 at this link:
http://www.objectivismstore.com/p-335-ayn-rand-centenary-celebration-set...
And here's Big Ed and CEI's Fred Smith at that events:
It
looks like a great conference!
Cato does things well! (I missed this year, but the 2006 Club 200 Conference was great fun).
I do not mean to be nitpicky
but I think it would be better if Ed Crane (who is a lovely man) was the Keynote Speaker, rather than John Stossel.
If I was the Founder of a libertarian organisation
and that organisation was hosting an event, I would expect to be the Keynote Speaker/Guest of Honour, with my portrait hanging on all walls in the Conference room. 
...but I digress...