Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (Movies Showing April 2011)

Film Type: Drama, Mystery, SciFi

About the film:
Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 is the first of the trilogy film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1,368page book novel in 1957 titled Atlas Shrugged. After various treatments and proposals floundered in development hell for nearly 40 years,[1]investor John Aglialoro initiated production in June 2010. The film was directed by Paul Johansson and stars Taylor Schilling as Dagny Taggart and Grant Bowler as Hank Rearden.



CASTS:
Taylor Schilling as Dagny Taggart
Grant Bowler as Hank Rearden
Matthew Marsden as James Taggart
Graham Beckel as Ellis Wyatt
Edi Gathegi as Edwin "Eddie" Willers
Jsu Garcia as Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian d'Anconia
Michael Lerner as Wesley Mouch
Jack Milo as Richard McNamara
Ethan Cohn as Owen Kellogg
Rebecca Wisocky as Lillian Rearden
Christina Pickles as Mother Rearden
Neill Barry as Philip Rearden
Patrick Fischler as Paul Larkin
Sylva Kelegian as Ivy Starnes
Jon Polito as Orren Boyle
Michael O'Keefe as Hugh Akston
Geoff Pierson as Midas Mulligan
Armin Shimerman as Dr. Potter
Paul Johansson as John Galt

DIRECTOR:
Paul Johansson

WRITER:
Brian Patrick O'Toole (Based on Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand)



PLOT:
Atlas Shrugged explores a dystopian United States where leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, refuse to be exploited by society. The protagonist, Dagny Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry (including Taggart Transcontinental, the once mighty transcontinental railroad for which she serves as the operating executive), while society's most productive citizens, led by the mysterious John Galt, progressively disappear. Galt describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing the "minds" that drive society's growth and productivity. In their efforts, these "men of the mind" hope to demonstrate that a world in which the individual is not free to create is doomed, that civilization cannot exist where men are slave to society and government, and that the destruction of the profit motive leads to the collapse of society.

Post-Production Review:
HIGH HOPES! That's all I can say!

Actually, I'd seen several advertisements about this film on Google Adsense rather than in other media. I first thought this is some sort of a software and pretending to be a film. But when I read more about this upcoming film soon I found out that it is a film about a popular novel. And they are even planning to have it in trilogy. The actors are not that "big" and so as the director.  I guess the only "big deal" in here is that it is an adaptation of a popular novel. But who knows. This might be a film that will introduce the next big names in Hollywood.

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