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Atlas Shrugged Part 3 Cast: Who is John Galt? _#ASP3

Posted by sdesapio 10 years, 3 months ago to The Gulch: Promotions
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Los Angeles, California - January 23, 2014 - Atlas Distribution Company announced today that “Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?” went into production on Monday, January 20th. The movie’s release is slated for September 2014.

The movie trilogy follows the three-part structure of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, “Atlas Shrugged.” The dystopian story takes place in a not-so-distant future with the nation’s economy approaching collapse. While overreaching government regulations persist in strangling the country’s few remaining entrepreneurs, society’s most productive have mysteriously disappeared.

At the helm of Part 3 will be seasoned award-winning Director Jim Manera who will be accompanied by Cinematographer, Gale Tattersall who previously worked as Director of Photography on Hugh Laurie's House M.D. as well as Tom Hanks' From Earth to the Moon.

“It’s very fulfilling for all us to be finishing the trilogy. Atlas Shrugged has impacted so many lives and we’re extremely proud to be bringing the final installment to the screen. The team we’ve assembled is nothing short of stellar. Part 3 is without question going to be the best of the trilogy.” said Producer John Aglialoro.

Atlas Distribution Company also announced today that the much anticipated role of John Galt will go to Kristoffer Polaha, an accomplished actor who, prior to working on Atlas, was profoundly influenced by Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.” Kris has been in a variety of television shows including Ringer (CW), alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Life Unexpected (CW). He will next be seen in a regular role alongside Rainn Wilson in Fox's new show, Backstrom. His feature credits include a supporting role in Devil's Knot, opposite Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth.

The role of Dagny Taggart, heroine COO of Taggart Transcontinental, will be played by Laura Regan who has appeared in the AMC hit Mad Men as well as the movie Unbreakable with Bruce Willis.

Producer Harmon Kaslow said, “We’ve always known that finding the right actor to play John Galt was going to be a huge challenge, but as soon as Kris walked in the room and said ‘Hello’, we knew we found him. Kris is John Galt. We couldn’t be more pleased. Laura and Kris already have great chemistry together. Atlas fans everywhere are going to be blown away.”

Rounding out the cast of “Atlas Shrugged” heroes are acclaimed actors Joaquim de Almeida as Francisco d’Anconia, Eric Allen Kramer as Ragnar Danneskjöld, and Rob Morrow as Hank Rearden, as well as a host of other veteran actors.

The prior two “Atlas Shrugged” movies are currently available on DVD & Blu-ray, iTunes, or streaming on Netflix and Amazon.

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Official Movie Web Site: http://www.WhoIsJohnGalt.com
Official Atlas Shrugged Forum: http://www.GaltsGulchOnline.com

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About Atlas Distribution Company
Atlas Distribution Company was formed by John Aglialoro to distribute the trilogy adaptation of Ayn Rand’s epic novel, Atlas Shrugged and other motion pictures. For more information, visit http://www.AtlasShruggedMovie.com.

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Check out some exclusive behind the scenes pics attached. Thanks to Eudaimonia for compiling the IMDB links.

John Galt - Kris Polaha - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119340
Dagny Taggart - Laura Regan - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716438
Francisco D'Anconia - Joaquim De Almeida - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0021835
Henry (Hank) Rearden - Rob Morrow - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001555
Ragnar Danneskjold - Eric Allen Kramer - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0469503
Hugh Akston - Stephen Tobolowski - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864997
Midas Mulligan - Mark Moses - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608601
Ellis Wyatt - Lew Temple - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0854702
Cherryl Taggart - Jen Nikolaisen - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0993212
Eddie Willers - Dominic Daniel - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1563320
James Taggart - Greg Germann - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314524
Head-of-State Thompson - Peter Mackenzie - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533380
Floyd Ferris - Neal McDonough - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568180
Wesley Mouch - Louis Herthum - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381043
Cuffy Meigs - Tony Denison - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219208
Clem Weatherby - Claude Knowlton - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461572
Gerald Starnes - Ned Vaugh - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891224

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  • Posted by Vegasrenie 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's a good point, which makes Eddie's race irrelevant. That may also make the age differences irrelevant except for the implied relationship between Dagny and Francisco in Pt 1. And I agree about the strikers - since Eddie was a step into diversity, then some of the strikers should be, too. But it's possible that the background actors in the Gulch may reflect that.
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  • Posted by Maritimus 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The story of "We the Living" is a story that Ayn Rand told and, I believe, described as the closest thing to an autobiography that she will ever write. That story is in her book. Cinema is a different art form and in many ways inferior in story telling. The Italian movie based on her book is only a pale shedow of the original, even as it used much more famous actors than any in Atlas Shrugged movies.
    I have lived, personally, through almost two decades of an initial communist tyranny. Never ever have I red a better and more vivid description of that reality and its "feel" on your own skin than Rand's novel. No movie screenplay can convey it as well as the original book did and does.
    My advice: read the book; forget the movie.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And since the movie adaptation has pretty much skipped the childhood relationships of Jim/Dagny/Eddie/Francisco the race has had no real effect. Although I never really understood the plot advancement of Eddie being part of that group at all. Seemed really out of place and never had any plot advancement or character expansion. And I really would have liked to see more of the "strikers" of ethnicity - would have been a way to be more inclusive that you don't have to be a white guy to be rich or accomplished.
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  • Posted by slfisher 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have. It was pretty interesting, though of course dated and not the way we'd make a movie now.
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  • Posted by slfisher 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Agreed, I really liked Eddie being cast as a black guy. Is he also black in the new cast?
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  • Posted by slfisher 10 years, 3 months ago
    ROB MORROW is Hank Rearden? LOL

    Greg Germann is a great choice for James Taggert though he seems a little long in the tooth for it.

    It'd be nice if the movies could have at least some of the same cast from one episode to the next.
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  • Posted by BradA 10 years, 3 months ago
    I looked through the complete IMDB cast list to see who I had seen elsewhere. I was pleased to find that everyone chosen was a seasoned actor. For those of you crying for some better known actors, keep in mind that the budget for this film doesn't approach typical Hollywood levels and so you do what you can with limited resources.

    I also know from many,many years of being peripherally involved with live regional theater, that physical attributes come in a distant second to what the actor brings to each roll. Owning the character, killing the part, however you want to phrase it, as long as you bring something real, something meaningful, something interesting or memorable to your work, then it is yours and it is something your audience will appreciate.
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  • Posted by gafisher 10 years, 3 months ago
    A fine cast for a great story. Switching out the actors may not have been what ADC wanted to do but without a Disney-size budget they've made it work pretty well -- by the time the film has passed the two-minute mark most viewers will see the characters, not the actors.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 10 years, 3 months ago
    Lew Temple and Eric Allen Kramer should switch rolls with each other.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    trust in others? trust professionals? you mean like they want us to trust professional politicians?
    No, thanks. I'll follow Dagny's example and trust my own judgment.
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    Posted by $ Hiraghm 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Those of good moral character should stay true to themselves."

    Then what's your explanation for the lack of evolution of Hank and Dagny? Adulterers are not those "of good moral character".

    Read more at http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/38...

    And I'm leaving your little pastie in there. I still resent like hell you inserting something into the paste buffer of MY computer. Just hope I don't figure out a way to feed you back a virus...
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  • Posted by $ Hiraghm 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What TV?
    I said "the societal standards". By the standards of society of that age, women were not supposed to fuck until they were married, and then only with their husbands.

    that "the big city" was full of sluts doesn't change the standard of the era.

    And Rearden wouldn't be the first audulterer who expected his playmate to be a virgin.

    Besides, by the rest of the back story for her, aside from D'Anconia, she *was* a virgin. No interest in or time for boys, remember?

    If you really suggest that society at large in the 1950s was "okay" with a single woman sleeping around... what color is the sky on your planet?

    (I'm not surprised; modern people for decades have formed the habit of thinking the past is just the same as the present, just with different clothes. That's why they have no rational explanation for the deterioration of society since then.)
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Cheryl and the "nursemaid" are really the only characters in the story that truly evolve. Even Dagny and Hank stay true to their core principles. And I'm OK with that. Those of good moral character should stay true to themselves. Those of bad moral character usually don't change, although in this case we see the nursemaid (who really isn't of bad moral character, just indoctrinated) come to see that his original beliefs were mistaken and changes. And then there's Cheryl. She represents the "low information" masses. They are seduced by the lies of the progressives. AR presents the possibility that they can be enlightened and brought around, I'm not so sure anymore. At least not until the entire society actually comes crumbling down, and frankly, for me and my children anyway, that will be too late.
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  • Posted by SolitudeIsBliss 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I will withhold judgment until I see the movie but I was hoping more for a Matthew McConnaughey or a Chris Hemsworth. LOL. Hey, a gal can hope.
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  • Posted by Rex_Little 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've never seen, or heard of, Cumerbatch, but if he has a compelling voice he SURELY should have been cast for Galt. As I mentioned in another thread: if they're going to put more than 5 minutes of The Speech into the movie, the voice of the actor delivering it had better rivet us in our seats.
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    Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "of course"? By the societal standard set when the book was written, Dagny should have been a virgin when she met Rearden... and after. By the standards of that era, she was a slut; which, in that era was a difficult contradiction: how can she be a protagonist and a slut? The blackmail, which wouldn't have worked today, was a concession to that.
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  • Posted by EconomicFreedom 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    >I think we get to see more character development with Cherryl Taggart than anyone else in the novel.

    I think that's absolutely true. During my last reading of AS — summer of 2009 — I almost stopped reading when I got to the sequence with Cherryl. Beautifully written and almost unbearably painful.

    I must say that the single scummiest thing James Taggart does throughout that novel — even including his political machinations — is his manipulation of Cherryl. You could actually write a whole screenplay just about that one sequence.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "For my money, nothing said "attractive", "ballsy", "steely", and "classy" better than Barbara Stanwyck"

    Ann Francis and Lauren Bacall come to mind, also.

    I watched Stanwyck for years on The Big Valley without liking her much. Then I caught "Stella Dallas" on tv. In the ending scenes she broke my heart. And of course I liked her performance in "Executive Suite".
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b0HloNhm...
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