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Atlas Shrugged Dream Cast, Revisited

Posted by Temlakos 8 years, 11 months ago to Entertainment
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Here I return to an earlier theme: what actors, among the greatest anyone could name, would make the best Atlas Shrugged cast? And by the way: price no object.

So here are my suggestions:

Dagny Taggart: Tilda Swinton. (She'd need a lot of make-up to look as young as she did in "The Chronicles of Narnia," but she could manage it.)

Henry Rearden: Daniel Craig (Or if we had done it a lot earlier, Laurence Harvey)

John Galt: Pierce Brosnan

Francisco d'Anconia: Antonio Banderas

Ragnar Danneskjöld: Dolph Lundgren (or perhaps Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Lillian Rearden: Christina Ricci

Mother Rearden: Angela Lansbury

Hugh Akston: Patrick Stewart

Midas Mulligan: Bruce Greenwood

Robert Stadler: Kurtwood Smith

Floyd Ferris: Peter Weller

Jim Taggart: Danny DeVito

Any other ideas?


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  • Posted by cranedragon 8 years, 9 months ago
    Ahhh. One of my favorite diversions.

    Herewith my dream cast [Dr. Who time machine required]:

    Dagny Taggart: Lauren Bacall. Or a young Kate Hepburn without the Connecticut accent.

    Henry Rearden: Humphrey Bogart [and not just to keep Betty Bacall company].

    John Galt: Clint Eastwood

    Francisco d'Anconia: Pierce Brosnan, who has the dark looks to be a convincing D'Anconia.

    Ragnar Danneskjöld: a young Eric Braeden [remember Rat Patrol?] or Peter Graves

    Lillian Rearden: Patricia Neal

    Mother Rearden: Joan Crawford

    Hugh Akston: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

    Midas Mulligan: Edward G. Robinson

    Robert Stadler: Armin Shimmerman

    Floyd Ferris: Bradford Dillman

    Jim Taggart: Burt Lancaster

    Cheryl Taggart: Keira Knightley
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    • Posted by 8 years, 9 months ago
      Burt Lancaster doesn't seem mean-spirited enough to play Jim Taggart. I'd sooner cast him as Dr. Robert Stadler. (With Kirk Douglas--who has played a few nasties in his career--as Floyd Ferris.)

      But maybe I'd want to cast Donald Pleasence as Stadler, and Peter Cushing as Floyd Ferris.
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