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By Todd VanDerWerff Jun 19, 2014 12:10 PM
After the first installment made a world-beating $4.6 million and the second an even better $3 million, the producers of the Atlas Shrugged trilogy knew they needed to pull out all the stops to make the third installment, Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?, a stone-cold guarantee to once again make only 65 percent of the prior installments take at the box office. To do that, theyve lured all-American superhero Ron Paul out of the acting retirement he probably would have been in had he pursued the box office superstardom we all know he had in him instead of pursuing politics. The Congressman, frequent presidential candidate, and passionate love of random drive-by Internet commenters will be joined in the film by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Kris Polaha, who is probably wishing Life UneXpected had just run for seven seasons already, because he wanted an acting career, but not like this. Not like this!
Sadly, Paul will not be playing John Galt, even though his name is in the title. (That honor goes to Polaha, who is probably consoling himself that Taylor Schilling was in one of these, and everything turned out okay for her, and oh Jesus, here come the tears again.) The Hollywood Reporter article reporting Pauls role in the film says that he and Beck will be giving their honest responses to John Galts speech in the film, but were pretty sure thats beneath a thespian of Pauls talents. Instead, were betting Paul will be playing John Galts childhood best friend and later sidekick, Lil Ronnie, who grew into old age while Galt was frozen, deathless, in the Arctic, returning only when America most needed him, and lets stop this joke before we get to talking about the role of Barbarossa in Little, Big.
Atlas Shrugged is a fantastic book, but its much more than a storyits a philosophy, Paul said to the Reporter. Its influenced millions of people already and because of its greatness its going to continue to influence a lot of people.
Also, Beck said, I love Atlas ShruggedFountainhead I love morebut who could say no? Dont worry, Glenn. Your dreams of an Avengers-style team-up movie set in the Ayn Randiverse could still come true!
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GlobalVagabond
(6 posts)I'm pretty sure they're only making two terrible movies anyways, not three.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)but unfortunately Ron Paul is not going to be a part of this bit of film history.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2800038/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged:_Part_III
Archae
(46,297 posts)I have a friend who works at a nearby movie theater, they actually canceled a showing of Atlas Shrugs II.
Nobody showed up!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Orrex
(63,168 posts)Exposethefrauds
(531 posts)If the first one is a major box office and video flop you don't oh make parts 2, 3 .... Unless your intent is to create a company that loses money.
Gothmog
(144,884 posts)He is not an actor and there is nothing that can save this series