Question at Ford Hall Forum, maybe around 1972: "Miss Rand, what is the status of Atlas Shrugged being made into a movie?"

Her answer: "Safely under my control." (Usual thunderous applause.)

Turner Classic Movies ran it a couple of months ago.
I have a DVD recorder/player with full editing capabilities, so I burned it into a DVD.

It's not true to the book, but I still enjoy it.

Ayn Rand was adamant that Roark's courtroom defense should be exactly as she wrote it.
When she found out they cut it short, she decided that Atlas Shrugged would never be put on film in her lifetime.

Warner Brothers did to Rand exactly what Cortlandt's owners did to Roark.

Art imitates life, indeed.

Patricia Neal would have made an incredible Dagny Taggart.

And boy, was Robert Douglas terrific as Toohey. Pure evil.

That's what me dino got out of it when I rented that movie six or so years ago.

A remake was discussed several years ago. But nixed by the producer who was interested in doing it, Zack Snyder.

“‘Fountainhead’ right now is on the back burner,” he told the Times. “I don’t know how that movie gets made, at least not right away.” As to why he thinks it’s not happening, Snyder believed the political climate still isn’t right for the feature film. “We need a less divided country and a little more liberal government to make that movie, so people don’t react to it in a certain way.”

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/03/zac...

I saw it once on TV, must have been at least 40 years ago. Time has blurred the details, but I think it was a better rendition of its book than the Atlas Shrugged trilogy (especially part 3).

Rand was reportedly unhappy with it. As a result, she demanded a degree of control over the script of any future movie than any producer would grant. That's a big reason why Atlas Shrugged never got made in her lifetime.

Thank Heaven! The cast was perfect as it was. It's a classic movie not some of the garbage we see today.

I think I have seen it twice. Once, when I didn't have a working television set, I sent into a bus station, and watched it on a coin-operated TV set. One time later, I did see it on my TV at home. There was considerable talk in the movie about individualism. It wasn't only about romance.

The "love story" was a sidebar.
The main thrust of that sidebar of the movie was Howard teaching Miss Francon (and thereby the movie viewers) how to be free and not be manipulated.

I'll have to watch the movie. Did they portray the story as just a love story or did they get into Rand's perspectives on individualism? I have to say the "love story" angle seemed way out in left field to me.

And I have it on my Kindle so I watch it as often as I want to.

The movie was okay. Anything with Gary Cooper in it is ok with me. I think they made their point.

There was a new production of The Fountainhead that was supposed to be done in 2021 but was canceled for some reason.

If one wants to change history, change the narrative.

It was part of the movie trailer.

Who wrote the description?