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Date Posted: 10:20:20 11/02/99 Tue
Author: GF
Subject: BULLETIN - Atlas Shrugged miniseries!!

from: http://www.missliberty.com/pageC.htm
October 30, 1999
Dear Friends of Liberty:
-- Big, Big News: TNT is developing Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" as a four-hour miniseries!
Albert S. Ruddy, who has produced over twenty films, will be executive producer for the $15-20 million drama. Ruddy has apparently been after the film rights to "Atlas Shrugged" for a long time. According to Variety, he tried to buy the rights 25 years ago, but when Rand insisted on final script approval, he backed away from the deal. His strong interest is probably a good sign. However, Ruddy's record as a producer is spotty. On the one hand, he produced the blockbuster Academy Award winning movie "The Godfather" in 1972, which won "Best Picture." On the other hand, he's also produced a lot of middling films, including at least one that Leonard Maltin rated a "bomb."

Susan Black, who wrote two made-for-TV movies (Married To A Stranger (1997), and State of Emergency (1994)), will write the screenplay for Atlas. The director and cast are to be announced "shortly." It's expected that TNT will likely begin production in summer 2000. No airdate has yet been scheduled.

This production is long overdue. In at least one poll, taken by "The Book of The Month Club," Americans rated "Atlas Shrugged" as the second most influential book in their lives after the Bible. Likewise, sales of Atlas are still strong, now almost half a century since its release.
However, I question the adequacy of a $15-20 million dollar budget, a modest one by the standards of today's films, and would also have preferred a more seasoned screenwriter. We will just have to hope for the best. In the past, various stars have been rumored as being interested in some of the key roles (Harrison Ford for Reardan and Sharon Stone for Dagny), so the film may be helped if some big names step forward."

Wow!! I know it won't be anything like the novel. But, still. It will be very interesting to see how it is interpreted.
Think of all the latent Blues who will watch it, then go out and buy the book, not realizing that it won't be anything like the series!
Ted Turner--unwitting dupe for the cause of the Blue!! GF

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