Atlas Shrugged Part 3 Cast: Who is John Galt? _#ASP3
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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
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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*** END PRESS RELEASE ***
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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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Film is also RIFE with directors having the final say on what shall remain memorable in a film and what shall remain forgettable.
It isn't like stage, where an actor can spontaneously vary some aspect of the performance.
>Two obvious, high profile, examples would be Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow...
The point being, whatever "Keith Richards" flavor he brought to Jack Sparrow either received the stamp of approval from the director or did not. Again, it's not a theater context.
>Yes, a director or producer can quash the otherwise inspired work of an actor and ruin a film.
Or a director can reign in an actor who might be inclined to go "over the top" during a take.
>I remain optimistic that ASP3's company will rise to the challenge of finding a way to connect with its audience.
In other words, you're admitting that the first two casts didn't connect with their audiences. I agree. I also think it was not entirely the fault of the cast, but the fault of the producers, the screenwriter, and the director.
Since Part 3 is being produced under the same sort of conditions as Parts 1 and 2 — with David Kelley inspecting everything to check for its "Objectivist purity," And I expect the same sort of results.
CHERRYL 1
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(Teresa Wright. You can see her in solid supporting rolls in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" starring Joseph Cotten, as well as in "Mrs. Minniver" starring Greer Garson. Wright was pretty, but not "hot", and always had a kind of naivete about her.)
CHERRYL 2
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(Betsy Blair played the plain-looking girlfriend of Ernest Borgnine in the movie version of "Marty" (I think her character was a high-school science teacher))
LOL...yes she is.
http://www.basedefotos.com/files/images/...
A bit scrawny, but, hey — whatever floats your boat.
As for Cherryl:
Kaslow and Aglialoro cast a hottie this time — pointlessly.
They didn't even keep the characters' ages consistent from one part to the next. They pretty much all looked 15 years older in part 2 than in 1, and now Dagny loses half of that back. (Maybe Eddie and Hank and James do too, I haven't looked at their pictures.)
Someday soon, all three movies will be available on one DVD or in a boxed set. Someone will pick them up without having read the book, watch them in order, and be confused as all hell.
My biggest casting gripe: Armin Schimmerman. The man was put on Earth to play a Rand bureaucrat, and all he got was a cameo in part 1.
If someone does AS again in the future, it shouldn't be a movie. It should be a TV miniseries, 6 to 8 parts, 90 minutes to 2 hours each. That's how I envisioned it when I read the book in 1971, before there had ever been such a thing as a miniseries.
Yes, a director or producer can quash the otherwise inspired work of an actor and ruin a film. I remain optimistic that ASP3's company will rise to the challenge of finding a way to connect with its audience.
Unfortunately, Rand's goal was on creating characters whose prime focus was on expounding her objectivist philosophy. In most cases this resulted in 2 dimensional caricatures. It will be the job of great actors to add the necessary 3rd dimension so the people can connect with both the character and the philosophy. Hopefully the director/producers will get this, this time out. We can all recall any number of memorable character portrayals from films over the years. I cannot recall a single portrayal of just an idea in film without its associated character. And it was always the strength of the character rather than the strength of the idea that made it memorable.
I thought the same thing originally about Eddie WIlers. And then - there IS the whole age thing, which is the rub... Wilers, Dannesjköld, D'Ancona, Galt, Dagny, even to some extent Hank, Hammond, Sanders, and some of the *younger* (eg 30's to 40's) producers - are somewhat cotemporary in age. I think, if "make-up" does their job, De Almeida could be made to look young enough (and as such will stomp the D'Anconia role) to nullify the 20 year discontunuity between his age and his "contemporaries" in the book. Otherwise, he won't look as an age contemporary to those he must, if Rand knew what she was doing in writing the characters.
It'd be the same issue (maybe worse) if Nick Cage did Galt... his age is too far removed from those who are also supposed to be of that generation. (Now... Nicolas Cage, as either James Taggart, Dagny's older brother, or better yet - Mr. Thompson - Woohoo! He is just devestating enough to make either of those parts.)
It's all visual continuity... it'd be like having an Eucalyptus tree in the Gulch, where the altitude, climate, and location wouldn't support such a thing. ;-)
C'mon, tho... you KNOW it'll be a good movie. The hardest part is, we ALL know (heck, memorized, and live) the story line here, so we perhaps are the most critical audience. Most of us know these people from Rand inside out - unlike the average moviegoing audience who has not read AS, and would not catch if D'Anconia was 20 years too old to be Dagny's age when they grew up together.
we're struggling with ragnar a bit
I think the only change I'd make is have Louis Herthum play Hank Rearden. Somehow he just looks the part to me - pretty much as I imagined him in the book in fact, but that's just a personal preference.
Jen Nikolaisen = well buff, bordering on peng!
I dunno what the fuck it is; half the store is down with it (an abnormal use of the word "down"; they're sick but still working). Some kind of flu, which slowly works its way into the lungs via the sinuses. You can tell how long someone has had it by the symptoms they exhibit.
I've been fighting it myself for 2 weeks; I expect I'll have another week to go before I'm rid of it.
Or is chicken soup that effective?
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