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May 29, 2013
Who Will Be John Galt?
Chances are, you are not one of the seven people who watched both Atlas Shrugged: Part II, but if you were you noticed that there was a complete change of cast. Dagny Taggart went from lightweight Taylor Schilling to Samantha Mathis who at least looks like she's done some work in her life. John Galt, who won't take front stage until "Part III," was played by Paul Johansson in "Part I" and by D.B. Sweeney in "Part II."
And now the people making "Part III" are asking the public for their input on who should play John Galt this time. You will recall that this is the part of the novel where John Galt gets his sex scenes AND delivers the undramatically gargantuan "Galt's Speech." They pose the question this way:
A. As long as the actor looks and acts like John Galt, I don't care what his personal beliefs are.
B. The actor needs to possess a deep understanding of, and passion for, Ayn Rand's ideas first and foremost.
Obviously, choice B will lead to a laughable failure of a movie, but commenters on the page are ignoring the question and simply suggesting actors. Lets see who they want:
- Ben Affleck
- Richard Armitage
- Kevin Bacon
- Scott Baio
- Simon Baker
- Adam Baldwin
- Stephen Baldwin
- Christian Bale
- Eric Bana
- Antonio Banderas
- Glenn Beck (two votes)
- Graham Beckel (age 63 - played Ellis Wyatt in "Part I")
- Tom Berenger (age 63)
- Paul Bettany
- Justin Beiber (age 19)
- Neil Boortz (age 68)
- Bruce Boxleitner (age 63)
- Pierce Brosnan (age 60)
- Billy Burke
- Steve Buscemi
- George W. Bush (age 66)
- Gerard Butler
- James Caan (age 73)
- Nicolas Cage
- Dean Cain
- James Callis
- Kirk Cameron
- Dr. Ben Carson (age 61)
- Jim Caviezel
- George Clooney
- Sean Connery (age 82)
- John Corbett
- Kevin Costner
- Simon Cowell
- Daniel Craig
- Russell Crowe
- Tom Cruise
- Brett Cullen
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- John Cusack
- Matt Damon
- Eric Dane
- Charlie Daniels (age 76)
- Leo DeCaprio
- Johnny Depp
- William De Vane (age 75)
- Jeffrey Donovan
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Sean Doyle
- Jerry Doyle
- Robert Duvall (age 82)
- Clint Eastwood (age 82)
- Aaron Eckhart
- Sam Elliott (age 68)
- Giancarlo Esposito
- Chris Evans
- Ralph Fiennes
- Nathan Fillion
- Joe Flanigan
- Harrison Ford (age 70)
- Tim Getman
- Mel Gibson ("although he sometimes leans left" the commenter warns)
- Scott Glenn (age 72)
- Ryan Gosling
- Kelsey Grammer
- Joel Gretsch
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Michael C. Hall
- Jon Hamm
- Mark Harmon (age 61)
- Ed Harris (age 62)
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Terence Hill (age 74)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Josh Holloway
- Salman Khan
- Matt Kibbe
- Michael Kitchen (age 64)
- Hugh Jackman
- Jonathan Jackson
- Paul Johansson
- Dwayne Johnson
- Tommy Lee Jones (age 66)
- Phil LaMarr
- Rob Lowe
- Joseph-Gordon Levitt
- William Levy
- Damian Lewis
- Daniel Day Lewis
- Rush Limbaugh (age 62)
- David Lyons
- Seth MacFarlane
- Tobey Maguire
- Carl Marino
- James McAvoy
- Matthew McConaughey
- Bruce McGill (age 62)
- Dennis Miller
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
- Viggo Mortensen
- Cillian Murphy
- Chuck Norris (age 73)
- Edward Norton
- Ted Nugent (age 64)
- Timothy Olyphant
- Jason O'Mara
- Bill O'Reilly (age 63)
- John O'Hurley
- Clive Owen
- Patrick Page
- Alan Partridge (do they mean Steve Coogan?)
- Rand Paul (no, really, three people wrote that)
- Neal Peart (age 60)
- Chris Pine
- Brad Pitt
- Zachary Quinto
- Robert Redford (age 76)
- Keanu Reeves
- Jeremy Renner
- Mickey Rourke
- Mark Ruffalo
- Liev Schreiber
- Ricky Schroder
- Dougray Scott
- Tom Selleck (age 68)
- Michael Shanks
- Charlie Sheen
- Gary Sinise
- Kevin Sorbo
- Kevin Spacey
- Eric Stoltz
- D. B. Sweeney
- Channing Tatum
- Fred Thompson (age 70)
- Alan Tudyk
- Donald Trump (age 66)
- Karl Urban
- Vince Vaughn
- Jon Voigt (age 74)
- Christoph Waltz
- Denzel Washington
- Bruce Willis
- James Woods (age 66)
- Anyone who has not publicly supported Obama
Plus this comment: "It's a movie. These are actors. 99% of actors are socialists. You could cast an Objectivist, but he probably would have zero acting ability."
Obviously some of those are jokes (Donald Trump?!), but most seemed to be sincere. John Galt is supposed to be in his 30s, so I've indicated the ages of those who are 60 or older, plus the one teenager. I don't know if these commenters have a blind faith in the ability of an unlimited makeup budget, or if they've never noticed that actors age at the same rate all of us do. Also, the film is supposed to be fairly low budget. Some of these top rank actors would wipe out the whole budget.
Filed under Film/Movies,Libertarianism | permalink | May 29, 2013 at 06:18 PM
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