ATLAS SHURGGED: PART 1 - FROM DEVLOPMENT TO DISTRIBUTION

The Hollywood Reporter has a must read piece on the upcoming adaptation of Atlas Shrugged. Here is a brief excerpt.

The first installment of Atlas was 44 years in the making because Rand and Hollywood couldn’t agree on how to bring the book’s 1,168 pages to the screen.

Through the years, big names have attached themselves to film or TV versions, but the film was made without A-listers and is being distributed by a Utah-based indie with an affinity for political and religious themes.  

“Talent agencies were not sending us many of their top people,” Kaslow says. “I don’t think it was political. We just suffered a credibility issue because everyone knew that a lot of well-known people had already tried to get this movie made.”

Aglialoro, who paid Rand’s heir Leonard Peikoff $1.1 million for rights to Atlas in 1992, ended up rushing it into production to prevent them from reverting. He beat the deadline by two days; Peikoff lost faith in the filmmakers over 19 years and said through a colleague that he fears the film doesn’t sufficiently reflect Rand’s philosophy.

If you want to see some of the twists and turns of how a globally known property goes from development to distribution in the world of feature films, this is a must read article.

Atlas Shrugged opens in select cities on April 15th.