In the long-gestating, career-encompassing allegory that is “Megalopolis,” director Francis Ford Coppola puts his name above the title and, in the film’s lone act of modesty, the words “A Fable” beneath it. To call this garish, idea-bloated monstrosity a mere “fable” is to grossly undersell the project’s expansive insights into art, life and legacy. Here, backed by an estimated $120 million of the “Godfather” director’s own money, is the sort of big swing audiences and critics have come to adore him for: a ginormous, recklessly ambitious epic in which humanity’s eternal themes — greed, corruption, loyalty and power — threaten to suffocate a more intimate personal crisis. In this case, a conservative politician and a forward-thinking urban designer clash over a mythic city’s future, with unwieldy results.
It’s Coppola’s fortune, and he can spend it as he likes, but grandiose title aside, it’s not at...
It’s Coppola’s fortune, and he can spend it as he likes, but grandiose title aside, it’s not at...
- 5/16/2024
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Francis Ford Coppola’s baroque epic Megalopolis has a new trailer ahead of its premiere at Cannes this week. It’s quite something.
Francis Ford Coppola’s long-in-gestation film Megalopolis makes its debut at the Cannes Film Festival this week. And while industry reactions to it have been mixed so far, Coppola’s self-described ‘Roman epic fable’ clearly has some spectacular visuals.
The new trailer, which you can find below, provides a glimpse at a grand baroque-looking drama that imagines New York as an empire on the edge of collapse. There are decadent parties, chariot races, and Shia Labeouf hopping about in a toga. There are collapsing buildings, what may or may not be a meteor strike, and dreamlike images straight out of a Buñuel flick.
Aside from the years or writing, rewriting, planning and false starts, the production of Megalopolis was, according to several accounts, fraught with difficulties. A...
Francis Ford Coppola’s long-in-gestation film Megalopolis makes its debut at the Cannes Film Festival this week. And while industry reactions to it have been mixed so far, Coppola’s self-described ‘Roman epic fable’ clearly has some spectacular visuals.
The new trailer, which you can find below, provides a glimpse at a grand baroque-looking drama that imagines New York as an empire on the edge of collapse. There are decadent parties, chariot races, and Shia Labeouf hopping about in a toga. There are collapsing buildings, what may or may not be a meteor strike, and dreamlike images straight out of a Buñuel flick.
Aside from the years or writing, rewriting, planning and false starts, the production of Megalopolis was, according to several accounts, fraught with difficulties. A...
- 5/14/2024
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
Filmmaker Zack Snyder hasn’t totally given up on his dream project to adapt Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” book. Trying to make it as a movie for years, Snyder recently appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast to loosely promote “Rebel Moon,” but also just talk about everything as one always does on that discursive podcast (the conversation is two hours long).
In their long and winding conversation, Rogan ended up talking about the pleasures of binge-watching and asked Snyder if he’d ever considered making a series.
Continue reading Zack Snyder Says He Pitched His ‘Fountainhead’ Movie To Netflix As A Series, But They Passed at The Playlist.
In their long and winding conversation, Rogan ended up talking about the pleasures of binge-watching and asked Snyder if he’d ever considered making a series.
Continue reading Zack Snyder Says He Pitched His ‘Fountainhead’ Movie To Netflix As A Series, But They Passed at The Playlist.
- 3/7/2024
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
There’s a striking dissonance between the serene and realistic surface of Daniel Hoesel and Julia Niemann’s Veni Vidi Vici and the way it bludgeons its points home using the exaggerated methods of social critiques common to such genre pieces as Snowpiercer or Infinity Pool. How effective this will be depends in part on the viewer. Some will appreciate this class satire’s grim portrait of a venal polo-playing billionaire class who explain away their amoral behavior with self-aggrandizing business-speak. Others may thrill to the dark comedy of a serial killer operating so in the open that he’s practically begging to be caught. Either way, the message of Hoesel’s screenplay is blunt: Everyone not at society’s pinnacle is only prey.
The film’s serial killer is Amon (Laurence Rupp), a chipper Austrian billionaire with a thing for picking off strangers with a sniper rifle. He pursues his targets carefully,...
The film’s serial killer is Amon (Laurence Rupp), a chipper Austrian billionaire with a thing for picking off strangers with a sniper rifle. He pursues his targets carefully,...
- 1/31/2024
- by Chris Barsanti
- Slant Magazine
One of my favorite categories of Reddit posts (don’t judge) are those where people who have worked for or near the super-rich share stories that people “wouldn’t believe.” From ordering private jets like they were pizza to hosting children’s parties where A-list performers sing to indifferent toddlers, these stories make it quite clear that the 1% lives on a planet most of us will never visit. “Pharaoh-level shit,” as one of my favorite Reddit reactions of all time said.
The craziest thing about Veni Vidi Vici, Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann’s pitch-black satire about a wealthy family with a predilection for human-hunting, is that it doesn’t seem that crazy.
The Ulrich Seidl-produced film opens with a quote from The Fountainhead, which can never mean a good thing unless we’re in store for a comedy. “The point is who will stop me”––a quote part...
The craziest thing about Veni Vidi Vici, Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann’s pitch-black satire about a wealthy family with a predilection for human-hunting, is that it doesn’t seem that crazy.
The Ulrich Seidl-produced film opens with a quote from The Fountainhead, which can never mean a good thing unless we’re in store for a comedy. “The point is who will stop me”––a quote part...
- 1/29/2024
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
Development continues on "Spider-Man" co-creator Steve Ditko's faceless crime fighter 'The Question" as a live action character for DC Studios:
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), followed by Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways, but Rodor discovered Twain had decided to proceed with an illegal sale of...
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), followed by Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways, but Rodor discovered Twain had decided to proceed with an illegal sale of...
- 10/29/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed “Oppenheimer,” which revolves around J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist considered the father of the atomic bomb, is one of the most highly anticipated films of the summer. Actually of the year. Over the decades there have been several films dealing with the Manhattan Project that culminated with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki thus ending World War II on Sept. 2, 1945.
Soon after the global conflict ended MGM, Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox were rushing to be the first studio to greenlight a movie dealing with the birth of the atomic bomb that ushered in the Cold War. MGM quickly put a project in motion hiring Robert Considine to write a story . The studio was circling the likes of its “A’ stars Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Van Johnson. Meanwhile over at Paramount, producer Hal Wallis was preparing a $1.5 million atomic bomb film called “Top Secret.
Soon after the global conflict ended MGM, Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox were rushing to be the first studio to greenlight a movie dealing with the birth of the atomic bomb that ushered in the Cold War. MGM quickly put a project in motion hiring Robert Considine to write a story . The studio was circling the likes of its “A’ stars Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Van Johnson. Meanwhile over at Paramount, producer Hal Wallis was preparing a $1.5 million atomic bomb film called “Top Secret.
- 7/21/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Director Zack Snyder ("Watchmen") has put his developing Stone Quarry feature film project "The Fountainhead", adapting author Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, on hold, because its too 'politically charged' to be produced at this time:
"To me, it’s like, if you’re a filmmaker, you sort of understand if you’re looking at it from that lens", said Snyder.
"...building a building and making a movie are very similar. You’re making little compromises constantly. Maybe one story less, and it’ll be very good. Does it really need all those fancy window frames? Maybe just make the windows. You wanted a mansion, and you end up with something that sort of looks like a house. For me, that’s always what 'The Fountainhead' was about.
"For a lot of people, it’s a big political thing, but for me, it’s not so much about that..."
"In 'The Fountainhead',...
"To me, it’s like, if you’re a filmmaker, you sort of understand if you’re looking at it from that lens", said Snyder.
"...building a building and making a movie are very similar. You’re making little compromises constantly. Maybe one story less, and it’ll be very good. Does it really need all those fancy window frames? Maybe just make the windows. You wanted a mansion, and you end up with something that sort of looks like a house. For me, that’s always what 'The Fountainhead' was about.
"For a lot of people, it’s a big political thing, but for me, it’s not so much about that..."
"In 'The Fountainhead',...
- 1/27/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Plenty of actors have played Abraham Lincoln well, but the actor still most associated with the role is Raymond Massey, who starred in Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prizewinning play. The film version was not a hit, as Sherwood’s aim is to capture the melancholy, even the foreboding, of a man who was a natural for politics. In this reading Lincoln tries to resist his ‘call to greatness’ knowing he’s letting himself in for an unhappy life. The Warner Archive’s restoration retrieves the film from old 16mm prints, restoring James Wong Howe’s handsome cinematography.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1940 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / Spirit of the People / Available at Amazon.com / General site Wac-Amazon / Street Date , 2022 / 21.99
Starring:
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Minor Watson, Alan Baxter, Harvey Stephens, Howard da Silva, Dorothy Tree, Louis Jean Heydt, Clem Bevans, Herbert Rudley,...
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1940 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / Spirit of the People / Available at Amazon.com / General site Wac-Amazon / Street Date , 2022 / 21.99
Starring:
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Minor Watson, Alan Baxter, Harvey Stephens, Howard da Silva, Dorothy Tree, Louis Jean Heydt, Clem Bevans, Herbert Rudley,...
- 9/3/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Director Zack Snyder ("Watchmen") continues developing his feature film project "The Fountainhead", adapting author Ayn Rand's 1943 dramatic romance, to be produced by Snyder's The Stone Quarry company:
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career. ...
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career. ...
- 5/25/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Editor’s note: Todd Lieberman is the Oscar-nominated producer of The Fighter with credits including Beauty and the Beast, Wonder and The Muppets. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he contributes occasional guest columns for Deadline.
I’ll never forget the first time I attended the Oscars. The glitz, the glamour, the unparalleled show of all shows. Getting to experience the majestic beauty of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The stunning cocktail gowns and tuxes. To say I was intimidated would be an understatement as I had never been anywhere this stuffed with important and famous people. Rubbing elbows with movie stars and seeing the who’s who of Hollywood all in one place – I felt as if I’d reached the Hollywood mountaintop.
It was March 25, 1996, and yes I was at that glorious event,...
I’ll never forget the first time I attended the Oscars. The glitz, the glamour, the unparalleled show of all shows. Getting to experience the majestic beauty of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The stunning cocktail gowns and tuxes. To say I was intimidated would be an understatement as I had never been anywhere this stuffed with important and famous people. Rubbing elbows with movie stars and seeing the who’s who of Hollywood all in one place – I felt as if I’d reached the Hollywood mountaintop.
It was March 25, 1996, and yes I was at that glorious event,...
- 3/24/2022
- by Todd Lieberman
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Zack Snyder ("Watchmen") continues developing his feature film project "The Fountainhead", adapting author Ayn Rand's 1943 dramatic romance, to be produced by Snyder's The Stone Quarry company:
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover,...
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover,...
- 3/20/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Development continues on "Spider-Man" co-creator Steve Ditko's faceless crime fighter 'The Question" as a live action character in the 'DC Film Universe':
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), followed by Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways, but Rodor discovered Twain had decided to proceed with an illegal sale of...
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), followed by Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways, but Rodor discovered Twain had decided to proceed with an illegal sale of...
- 1/8/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Dreams and disputations about “modernization” vs. “the land,” of what free labor did and could entail, were profuse in mid-1930s America. Alive in the minds and actions of the displaced worker and cloistered idealist alike. Director King Vidor had long been using moving images to think along the same lines, but in 1934 these ideas collided with real world events, and his own aspirations for independence within his trade, and produced a sui generis film. Born as a reaction to the widespread suffering of the Great Depression, and from reading a Reader’s Digest article advocating for co-operative farming as a solution to unemployment, Our Daily Bread was developed by Vidor and his then wife and close-collaborator Florence Hill, as a semi-sequel to his 1928 film The Crowd, which followed the tribulations of an ambitious “everyman.” Like The Crowd, Our Daily Bread features the Sims couple, John and Mary, this time...
- 8/16/2021
- MUBI
Director Zack Snyder ("Watchmen") continues developing his feature film project "The Fountainhead", adapting author Ayn Rand's 1943 dramatic romance, to be produced by Snyder's The Stone Quarry company:
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover,...
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover,...
- 11/23/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Groundbreaking ideas seem in short supply at the moment. This summer’s streamer hits drew big audiences but did not resonate in terms of novelty. Charlize Theron returns as a lethal and immortal mercenary in The Old Guard. Tom Hanks again calmly captains a World War II warship in Greyhound. Most of the “new” original series on Peacock and HBO Max had to first prove themselves in the UK before being granted their U.S. visas.
The brave new world of streaming thus is reaffirming a rule that Hollywood learned a century ago: If an idea is billed as new or, even worse, as “important,” run for cover.
All this may sound war-weary, but it’s worth review at a moment when Hollywood is celebrating (or should be) an anniversary that produced one of its most embarrassing flops – a movie that was aggressively heralded as both new and important. It...
The brave new world of streaming thus is reaffirming a rule that Hollywood learned a century ago: If an idea is billed as new or, even worse, as “important,” run for cover.
All this may sound war-weary, but it’s worth review at a moment when Hollywood is celebrating (or should be) an anniversary that produced one of its most embarrassing flops – a movie that was aggressively heralded as both new and important. It...
- 7/23/2020
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
In this unprecedented time in global history, we’re all dealing with the stresses of the pandemic in different ways. Some of us are volunteering. Some of us are baking. Some of us are taking fistfuls of Klonopin and watching The Office in footy pajamas. And some of us are being filthily, unspeakably horny for Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid), Fauci has served as a plainspoken, sobering presence during Trump’s press briefings, providing a no-bullshit counterbalance to the extended...
The director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid), Fauci has served as a plainspoken, sobering presence during Trump’s press briefings, providing a no-bullshit counterbalance to the extended...
- 5/15/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
"Watchmen" director Zack Snyder continues developing his next feature film project "The Fountainhead", adapting author Ayn Rand's 1943 dramatic romance, through his production company "The Stone Quarry":
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover,...
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover,...
- 3/20/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Director Zack Snyder ("Watchmen") continues developing his feature film project "The Fountainhead", adapting author Ayn Rand's 1943 dramatic romance, to be produced by Snyder's The Stone Quarry company:
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover,...
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover,...
- 1/29/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Spider-Man" co-creator Steve Ditko's faceless crime fighter 'The Question", an adherent of 'objectivism', is currently in development as a live action character in the DC Universe:
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), followed by Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways, but Rodor discovered Twain had decided to proceed with an...
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), followed by Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways, but Rodor discovered Twain had decided to proceed with an...
- 1/14/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Spider-Man" co-creator Steve Ditko's faceless crime fighter character 'The Question", a ruthless adherent of 'objectivism', is currently in consideration for a live-action treatment, as a feature, TV series or guest-starring role in a CW series:
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), followed by Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways,...
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), followed by Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways,...
- 7/18/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Any new project that keeps Zack Snyder away from that adaptation of The Fountainhead he’s been kicking around for a few years can only be a good thing, and today that good thing is a cartoon about vikings for Netflix. As announced in a press release, the show is billed as a “new anime series set in the world of Norse…...
- 7/11/2019
- by Sam Barsanti on News, shared by Sam Barsanti to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
"Watchmen" director Zack Snyder continues developing his next feature film project "The Fountainhead", adapting author Ayn Rand's 1943 dramatic romance, through his new production company "The Stone Quarry":
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The...
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The...
- 7/5/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Spider-Man" co-creator Steve Ditko's faceless crime fighter character 'The Question", a ruthless adherent of 'objectivism', is currently in consideration for a live-action treatment, whether as a feature, TV series or guest-starring role in a CW series:
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), as well as Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways,...
'The Question' ('Vic Sage') created by writer/illustrator Steve Ditko, debuted in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), as well as Charlton's "Mysterious Suspense" (October 1968) .
The character was then acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980's...
...and incorporated into the 'DC Universe', with former 'Gotham' police officer 'Renee Montoya', a protégé of Sage, becoming the new 'Question'.
"...in 'Hub City', TV investigative journalist 'Vic Sage' looking into criminal activities by a 'Dr. Twain', was approached by 'Aristotle Rodor', a former college professor, telling Sage about an artificial skin he had developed with Twain called 'Pseudoderm' with sometimes fatal side effects.
"Rodor and Twain agreed to abandon the project and parted ways,...
- 6/5/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Recently, it was announced that filmmaker Zack Snyder was going to take a break from superhero films, after leaving the Dceu in the rearview mirror, and venture back into the genre that really put him on the map — zombies. However, before his “Army of the Dead” was announced, the filmmaker publicly said that he wanted to adapt Ayn Rand’s novel “The Fountainhead” for the big screen.
Continue reading ‘The Fountainhead’: Zack Snyder Still Wants To Make His “Super Fun And Crazy” Film About “Architecture And Sex” at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Fountainhead’: Zack Snyder Still Wants To Make His “Super Fun And Crazy” Film About “Architecture And Sex” at The Playlist.
- 5/21/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Director Zack Snyder ("Watchmen") continues developing his next feature film project "The Fountainhead", adapting author Ayn Rand's 1943 dramatic romance, through his new production company "The Stone Quarry":
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The...
"...in 'The Fountainhead', 'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings...
"...refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career.
"Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The...
- 3/26/2019
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The words Justice League and turkey have been used in the same sentence quite a bit over the last year, but now Zack Snyder has properly brought them together to give us a sly little hint at what Warner Bros. did after they booted him off the movie, depriving us of the much-in-demand Snyder Cut.
The vehicle for this message: the Snyder family Thanksgiving turkey, seen on Vero gently simmering in its own juices and being allowed to cook to perfection in the way the finished film very much wasn’t. In fact, at this particular moment, Snyder thinks his bird has “an hour more at least” to go, hinting to fans that the studio sliced an hour out of his narrative, discarding interesting sounding scenes like so many giblets.
While a roast turkey is definitely the oddest way that a Snyder Cut story has been communicated (though the plane...
The vehicle for this message: the Snyder family Thanksgiving turkey, seen on Vero gently simmering in its own juices and being allowed to cook to perfection in the way the finished film very much wasn’t. In fact, at this particular moment, Snyder thinks his bird has “an hour more at least” to go, hinting to fans that the studio sliced an hour out of his narrative, discarding interesting sounding scenes like so many giblets.
While a roast turkey is definitely the oddest way that a Snyder Cut story has been communicated (though the plane...
- 11/23/2018
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Over the course of Gilmore Girls‘ seven seasons (and four-episode revival), Rory Gilmore was hardly ever without a book — or a boyfriend.
It started with Dean Forester and that kiss in Aisle 3. Then, there was Jess Mariano, Luke’s rebellious nephew whose love of literature rivaled even Rory’s. And then, of course, there was Logan Huntzberger, a fellow Yale student who swept Rory off her feet in the dramedy’s later seasons. (Let’s all pour one out here for Naked Guy Marty, who never got a chance to be Rory’s beau, despite his best efforts.)
All told,...
It started with Dean Forester and that kiss in Aisle 3. Then, there was Jess Mariano, Luke’s rebellious nephew whose love of literature rivaled even Rory’s. And then, of course, there was Logan Huntzberger, a fellow Yale student who swept Rory off her feet in the dramedy’s later seasons. (Let’s all pour one out here for Naked Guy Marty, who never got a chance to be Rory’s beau, despite his best efforts.)
All told,...
- 6/25/2018
- TVLine.com
Depending on who you ask, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel was either an engrossingly sombre and original take on a beloved character, or a betrayal of everything that Superman stands for. Perhaps the biggest litmus test for sorting fans from detractors is the climax of the 2013 film, in which Henry Cavill’s titular hero breaks the neck of General Zod in order to prevent the supervillain and fellow Kryptonian from killing civilians.
What some saw as a thought-provoking challenge to our notions of heroism, others decried as a tasteless and misguided dismissal of the age-old rule that Superman never kills. Now, storyboard artist, animated filmmaker and frequent Dceu contributor Jay Oliva has made it very clear which side of the fence he lies on with his recent Tweet.
Responding to a user who criticized ‘the neck-breaking Superman,’ Oliva, whose work on Man of Steel marked his first time storyboarding a live-action feature film,...
What some saw as a thought-provoking challenge to our notions of heroism, others decried as a tasteless and misguided dismissal of the age-old rule that Superman never kills. Now, storyboard artist, animated filmmaker and frequent Dceu contributor Jay Oliva has made it very clear which side of the fence he lies on with his recent Tweet.
Responding to a user who criticized ‘the neck-breaking Superman,’ Oliva, whose work on Man of Steel marked his first time storyboarding a live-action feature film,...
- 6/3/2018
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
For those holding out hope that Dceu founding father, Zack Snyder, would keep fighting the good fight – namely, urging the powers that be to release the director’s cut of Justice League – having announced that his next project would be an adaptation of the 1943 Ayn Rand novel, The Fountainhead was especially troubling.
Granted, the filmmaker behind Man of Steel has been overly sentimental throughout the last week or so, even for him, presenting the fandom with what could very well be a parting gift, but what Snyder delivered late Thursday night, on his favourite social media platform, Vero, was particularly ominous.
That’s because he unveiled the first ever photo he captured of the holy DC Trinity: Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill). The snapshot, taken on an iPhone during the production of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, is extremely disheartening, as it hearkened...
Granted, the filmmaker behind Man of Steel has been overly sentimental throughout the last week or so, even for him, presenting the fandom with what could very well be a parting gift, but what Snyder delivered late Thursday night, on his favourite social media platform, Vero, was particularly ominous.
That’s because he unveiled the first ever photo he captured of the holy DC Trinity: Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill). The snapshot, taken on an iPhone during the production of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, is extremely disheartening, as it hearkened...
- 6/3/2018
- by Joseph Falcone
- We Got This Covered
Having shepherded the Dceu for nearly half a decade, on a path that WB is no longer interested in pursuing, mind you, earlier this week Zack Snyder announced that his next project would be an adaptation of the 1943 Ayn Rand novel, The Fountainhead, much to fan chagrin.
For those holding out hope that the Man of Steel director will keep fighting the good fight, namely urging the powers that be to release the Snyder cut of Justice League, I wouldn’t hold your breath. We may have just witnessed his blueprint for the shared cinematic universe come full circle – well, semi-circle – as Snyder has seemingly posted his Dceu swan song.
Late last night, the director took to his favorite social media platform, Vero, and unveiled the first photo he ever captured of the holy DC Trinity: Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill). The snapshot, which you can check out below,...
For those holding out hope that the Man of Steel director will keep fighting the good fight, namely urging the powers that be to release the Snyder cut of Justice League, I wouldn’t hold your breath. We may have just witnessed his blueprint for the shared cinematic universe come full circle – well, semi-circle – as Snyder has seemingly posted his Dceu swan song.
Late last night, the director took to his favorite social media platform, Vero, and unveiled the first photo he ever captured of the holy DC Trinity: Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill). The snapshot, which you can check out below,...
- 6/1/2018
- by Joseph Falcone
- We Got This Covered
Unfortunately for Zack’s keyboard warriors, despite the lore regarding a Snyder cut of Justice League never being more tangible than it has been for the last month, or so, we may have just been witnessing the founding father coming to terms with his departure from the Dceu, whether he was relieved of his duties or withdrew voluntarily.
Having shepherded the shared cinematic universe for half a decade, in a direction that the studio is no longer keen on pursuing, Zack Snyder officially announced earlier this week that his next project would be an adaptation of the 1943 Ayn Rand novel, The Fountainhead, much to fan chagrin. Thankfully, though, he presented us with a parting gift the other day, showing off a behind the scenes photo featuring Ezra Miller dressed as The Flash for a costume test.
Now, just in case his offering wasn’t sufficient, concept art from Snyder’s divisive Dceu opener,...
Having shepherded the shared cinematic universe for half a decade, in a direction that the studio is no longer keen on pursuing, Zack Snyder officially announced earlier this week that his next project would be an adaptation of the 1943 Ayn Rand novel, The Fountainhead, much to fan chagrin. Thankfully, though, he presented us with a parting gift the other day, showing off a behind the scenes photo featuring Ezra Miller dressed as The Flash for a costume test.
Now, just in case his offering wasn’t sufficient, concept art from Snyder’s divisive Dceu opener,...
- 6/1/2018
- by Joseph Falcone
- We Got This Covered
Although the lore regarding a Zack Snyder cut of Justice League has become much more tangible throughout the last month, or so, we might’ve just been witnessing the founding father coming to terms with his departure from the Dceu, whether he was relieved of his duties or withdrew voluntarily.
Despite recently liking a post on Vero pertaining to a screening of the fabled Snyder cut of the film, the action proved to be nothing more than a distraction tactic, leaving his keyboard warriors unprepared for what would follow mere days later.
Having shepherded the shared cinematic universe for half a decade in a direction that the studio is no longer pursuing, Zack Snyder officially announced earlier this week that his next project would be an adaptation of the 1943 Ayn Rand novel, The Fountainhead, much to fan chagrin.
De facto, Snyder has seemingly conceded that he’ll never see his Dceu blueprint come to fruition,...
Despite recently liking a post on Vero pertaining to a screening of the fabled Snyder cut of the film, the action proved to be nothing more than a distraction tactic, leaving his keyboard warriors unprepared for what would follow mere days later.
Having shepherded the shared cinematic universe for half a decade in a direction that the studio is no longer pursuing, Zack Snyder officially announced earlier this week that his next project would be an adaptation of the 1943 Ayn Rand novel, The Fountainhead, much to fan chagrin.
De facto, Snyder has seemingly conceded that he’ll never see his Dceu blueprint come to fruition,...
- 6/1/2018
- by Joseph Falcone
- We Got This Covered
Given how the theatrical cut of Justice League was hardly his movie at all, after Warner Bros. ordered replacement director Joss Whedon to reshoot much of the production, you’d think that Zack Snyder would have completely washed his hands with the Dceu. Especially now that we’ve heard he’s found his next project in the form of an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. It turns out, though, that the director is still set to play a producing role on Wonder Woman 2.
Snyder confirmed as much when a fan asked him on social media site Vero if he’d be a producer on the upcoming sequel to the 2017 success story. The filmmaker replied with a short but sweet, “Oh yes.”
For Snyder dissenters who love Wonder Woman, it’s worth remembering that the director actually played a key role in the smash hit movie. Not only did he produce it,...
Snyder confirmed as much when a fan asked him on social media site Vero if he’d be a producer on the upcoming sequel to the 2017 success story. The filmmaker replied with a short but sweet, “Oh yes.”
For Snyder dissenters who love Wonder Woman, it’s worth remembering that the director actually played a key role in the smash hit movie. Not only did he produce it,...
- 5/31/2018
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Director Zack Snyder ("Watchmen") has confirmed his next feature film project will be "The Fountainhead", adapting author Ayn Rand's 1943 novel:
"...'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings, refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career. Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover, 'Dominique Francon'. She believes that non-conformity has no chance of winning,...
"...'Howard Roark', is an architect who designs modernist buildings, refusing to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
"His struggle reflects a belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
"Roark is opposed by 'second-handers', who value conformity over independence and integrity, including Roark's former classmate 'Peter Keating', who succeeds by following popular styles, but turns to Roark for help with his own design problems.
"'Ellsworth Toohey', a socialist architecture critic who uses his influence to promote his political and social agenda, tries to destroy Roark's career. Tabloid newspaper publisher 'Gail Wynand' seeks to shape popular opinion, befriending Roark, then betrays him when public opinion turns in a direction he cannot control.
"The most controversial character is Roark's lover, 'Dominique Francon'. She believes that non-conformity has no chance of winning,...
- 5/29/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
There aren’t many topics that are as controversial on Twitter as filmmaker Zack Snyder. Much like everything on social media, there’s no middle ground. You either fall into the “Snyder is a god!” or “Snyder is the worst!” camps. So, when Snyder posts that his next film project is the long-in-development adaptation of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” you have to imagine that Twitter was ablaze in hot takes on the news.
- 5/29/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Zack Snyder is turning from superheroes to Randian Objectivism. The Batman v. Superman filmmaker took to his favorite platform, Vero, to announce that his long-talked-about adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is his next movie. Another day, another bit of news gleamed from Zack Snyder’s Vero account. While fielding questions from fans on the social media platform, Snyder […]
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- 5/29/2018
- by /Film Staff
- Slash Film
Zack Snyder has confirmed on Vero that his next film project will be an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead. This is a project that he's been wanting to develop for some time now. Back in 2016, when talking to THR about it, he said:
"I have been working on The Fountainhead I've always felt like The Fountainhead was such a thesis on the creative process and what it is to create something. Warner Bros. owns [Ayn Rand's] script and I've just been working on that a little bit."
So I guess that means Snyder will be working with Warner Bros. again. I wasn't sure if Snyder would work with the studio again after all of the Justice League drama that went down.
For those of you who aren't familiar with The Fountainhead, here's the description from the book:
When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy,...
"I have been working on The Fountainhead I've always felt like The Fountainhead was such a thesis on the creative process and what it is to create something. Warner Bros. owns [Ayn Rand's] script and I've just been working on that a little bit."
So I guess that means Snyder will be working with Warner Bros. again. I wasn't sure if Snyder would work with the studio again after all of the Justice League drama that went down.
For those of you who aren't familiar with The Fountainhead, here's the description from the book:
When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy,...
- 5/29/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
After working on movies for DC like Man Of Steel, Batman V. Superman, and Justice League Zack Snyder seems to be out of the superhero game on onto different projects. But what will the director do next? Worry no more, because Snyder has confirmed he’s taking on some serious material by adapting Ayn Rand’s classic novel, “The Fountainhead.” Snyder told a fan... Read More...
- 5/29/2018
- by Matt Rooney
- JoBlo.com
Zack Snyder is planning his directorial comeback with an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel “The Fountainhead.” The director announced the plan on the social media platform Vero (via Deadline) when asked by a fan to name his next project. Snyder’s last directorial credit is 2017’s “Justice League,” although he stepped away from production in May 2017 after a family tragedy. Joss Whedon boarded the Warner Bros. tentpole and completed it on Snyder’s behalf, making “Batman v Superman” in 2016 the director’s last completed directorial effort.
“The Fountainhead” centers on the young architect Howard Roark, whose dream of constructing modernist buildings puts him in opposition with the architectural establishment. The novel was adapted into a movie in 1949, starring Gary Cooper as Roark, and has caught the eye of directors like Michael Cimino and Oliver Stone over the years. Snyder first expressed interest in adapting “The Fountainhead” in a 2016 interview,...
“The Fountainhead” centers on the young architect Howard Roark, whose dream of constructing modernist buildings puts him in opposition with the architectural establishment. The novel was adapted into a movie in 1949, starring Gary Cooper as Roark, and has caught the eye of directors like Michael Cimino and Oliver Stone over the years. Snyder first expressed interest in adapting “The Fountainhead” in a 2016 interview,...
- 5/29/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Man of Steel’s Zack Synder is about to embark on an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead ahead of, what was thought his next project, The Last Photograph.
The 1943 novel follows Howard Roark, an individualistic young architect who designs modernist buildings and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation. Roark embodies what Rand believed to be the ideal man, and his struggle reflects Rand’s belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
The character of Roark was based on the idea of Rand’s vision of an ideal man. The protagonist of The Fountainhead was the first instance where she believed she had achieved this. Roark embodies Rand’s egoistic moral ideals, especially the virtues of independence and integrity. It’s also worth noting that the female lead in the novel was the subject of rape at the hands of Roark.
Also in the...
The 1943 novel follows Howard Roark, an individualistic young architect who designs modernist buildings and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation. Roark embodies what Rand believed to be the ideal man, and his struggle reflects Rand’s belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
The character of Roark was based on the idea of Rand’s vision of an ideal man. The protagonist of The Fountainhead was the first instance where she believed she had achieved this. Roark embodies Rand’s egoistic moral ideals, especially the virtues of independence and integrity. It’s also worth noting that the female lead in the novel was the subject of rape at the hands of Roark.
Also in the...
- 5/29/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Having shepherded the DC cinematic universe in a direction that the studio is no longer pursuing, Zack Snyder, whether he was relieved of his duties or departed voluntarily, has announced that his next project will be an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel, The Fountainhead.
In 2016, Snyder revealed that he would follow up Justice League, which ended its theatrical run as the lowest-grossing Dceu film to date, with The Last Photograph, an adventurous wartime drama about two men who travel to Afghanistan, currently listed in pre-production by IMDb. However, it would appear that Snyder’s put the Kurt Johnstad collaboration on hold.
Responding to a fan question on Vero, where he handles most of his business these days, the American-born filmmaker was asked what his next project will be, to which he answered in short-form, “Fountainhead.”
A 1943-published novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead shadows an individualistic young architect named Howard Roark,...
In 2016, Snyder revealed that he would follow up Justice League, which ended its theatrical run as the lowest-grossing Dceu film to date, with The Last Photograph, an adventurous wartime drama about two men who travel to Afghanistan, currently listed in pre-production by IMDb. However, it would appear that Snyder’s put the Kurt Johnstad collaboration on hold.
Responding to a fan question on Vero, where he handles most of his business these days, the American-born filmmaker was asked what his next project will be, to which he answered in short-form, “Fountainhead.”
A 1943-published novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead shadows an individualistic young architect named Howard Roark,...
- 5/29/2018
- by Joseph Falcone
- We Got This Covered
Zack Snyder said in response to a fan question on the social-media site Vero that his next project will be The Fountainhead, an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel.
Snyder has been developing The Last Photograph has his follow-up to 2017’s Justice League, the Warner Bros/DC tentpole that he directed and produced with wife Deborah Snyder. Joss Whedon came aboard to do reshoots and postproduction on that film after the Snyders stepped back following the death of their daughter. Justice League film split fans but made $659.4 million at the worldwide box office.
The director whose credits include 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel, Sucker Punch and Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice had been developing the war pic The Last Photograph. It’s unclear where that stands (IMDbPro says it’s in pre-production), but when asked by a fan today during a Vero what his next project is, Snyder responded “Fountainhead.
Snyder has been developing The Last Photograph has his follow-up to 2017’s Justice League, the Warner Bros/DC tentpole that he directed and produced with wife Deborah Snyder. Joss Whedon came aboard to do reshoots and postproduction on that film after the Snyders stepped back following the death of their daughter. Justice League film split fans but made $659.4 million at the worldwide box office.
The director whose credits include 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel, Sucker Punch and Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice had been developing the war pic The Last Photograph. It’s unclear where that stands (IMDbPro says it’s in pre-production), but when asked by a fan today during a Vero what his next project is, Snyder responded “Fountainhead.
- 5/28/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Back when interracial marriage was a shady topic (are those dark days coming back?) the U.S. military had some adjustment issues. Full integration of the ranks didn’t remove the anti- Japanese bigotry. James Michener’s novel has been transformed into a big-scale romance, with Marlon Brando coming to terms with a split in loyalty between the flag and his private life. The big shock is that the Paul Osborn’s screenplay doesn’t let the military off easy.
Sayonara
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 147 min. / Street Date November 14, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Kent Smith.
Cinematography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Film Editors: Philip W. Anderson, Arthur P. Schmidt
Production Design: Ted Haworth
Original Music: Irving Berlin, Franz Waxman
Written by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener
Produced by William Goetz...
Sayonara
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 147 min. / Street Date November 14, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Kent Smith.
Cinematography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Film Editors: Philip W. Anderson, Arthur P. Schmidt
Production Design: Ted Haworth
Original Music: Irving Berlin, Franz Waxman
Written by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener
Produced by William Goetz...
- 11/21/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Ryan Lambie Apr 12, 2017
Kevin Spacey turns into a cat. Christopher Walken. We take a closer look at the Kafka-esque comedy, Nine Lives..
“When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed.”
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So goes the first line in Franz Kafka’s classic short story, Metamorphosis - a tiny, existential drama subject to all kinds of interpretations since its publication in 1915. Even that famous opening line is open to interpretation, as this Guardian piece points out: did Kafka really mean that poor, unfortunate Gregor woke up as a cockroach, another kind of insect, or something else entirely? The German phrase he uses, “Ungeheuren Ungeziefer” loosely translates to “enormous vermin.”
Whatever Gregor becomes, it’s something pitiful and helpless; he can no longer work, and gradually, he’s shunned by his own family.
Kevin Spacey turns into a cat. Christopher Walken. We take a closer look at the Kafka-esque comedy, Nine Lives..
“When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed.”
See related Nintendo Famicom Mini: examining Japan's tiny console
So goes the first line in Franz Kafka’s classic short story, Metamorphosis - a tiny, existential drama subject to all kinds of interpretations since its publication in 1915. Even that famous opening line is open to interpretation, as this Guardian piece points out: did Kafka really mean that poor, unfortunate Gregor woke up as a cockroach, another kind of insect, or something else entirely? The German phrase he uses, “Ungeheuren Ungeziefer” loosely translates to “enormous vermin.”
Whatever Gregor becomes, it’s something pitiful and helpless; he can no longer work, and gradually, he’s shunned by his own family.
- 4/10/2017
- Den of Geek
A version of this article originally appeared on ew.com.
Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
- 2/21/2017
- by Madeline Raynor
- PEOPLE.com
Of all the side-eye being thrown in the direction of Donald Trump’s inauguration this afternoon, one of the most elegant and subtle digs has come to us from Turner Classic Movies, of all places. The Turner-owned cable network is “celebrating” today’s “festivities” by airing The Fountainhead, King Vidor’s 1949 film about an architect obsessed with big buildings and personal advancement by any means necessary. It’s based on the book by Ayn Rand, patron saint of fucking over the less fortunate, and, as Patton Oswalt put it on Twitter:
Oooh! “The Fountainhead” starting on @tcm. Entertaining, gonzo movie based on a shitty, gonzo novel! You all should tune in!
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 20, 2017
Or, as Leonard Maltin puts it in his review of the film on TCM’s website, “cast does what it can with the script.” The movie started about an hour ago, so ...
Oooh! “The Fountainhead” starting on @tcm. Entertaining, gonzo movie based on a shitty, gonzo novel! You all should tune in!
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 20, 2017
Or, as Leonard Maltin puts it in his review of the film on TCM’s website, “cast does what it can with the script.” The movie started about an hour ago, so ...
- 1/20/2017
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
Andrew Blair Jul 20, 2016
From Forrest Gump and The Incredibles, through to Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and The Muppets - exploring the politics of big films.
Some movies wear their political messages lightly, some club you over the head. Guardians Of The Galaxy’s most explicit political statement is probably ‘We are Groot’, which could mean anything from ‘You’re my friends’ to a thesis on the benefits of intersectionality. Team America: World Police, on the other hand, provides an argument for military intervention that probably isn’t covered in the Chilcot Report.
Some movies, though, have messages buried at varying depths in the subtext that don’t come out straight away upon the their release. The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, despite having been published in 1955, achieved this. The influence of World War One - the trenches and mechanised warfare - influence a technophobia, as does growing up near the Black Country.
From Forrest Gump and The Incredibles, through to Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and The Muppets - exploring the politics of big films.
Some movies wear their political messages lightly, some club you over the head. Guardians Of The Galaxy’s most explicit political statement is probably ‘We are Groot’, which could mean anything from ‘You’re my friends’ to a thesis on the benefits of intersectionality. Team America: World Police, on the other hand, provides an argument for military intervention that probably isn’t covered in the Chilcot Report.
Some movies, though, have messages buried at varying depths in the subtext that don’t come out straight away upon the their release. The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, despite having been published in 1955, achieved this. The influence of World War One - the trenches and mechanised warfare - influence a technophobia, as does growing up near the Black Country.
- 7/14/2016
- Den of Geek
It had been a long time since I was in the same room with director Michael Cimino. My first job out of Nyu Cinema Studies was in the publicity department at United Artists in New York, where I witnessed the long delays on Cimino’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 1978 anti-war diatribe “The Deer Hunter,” the period western “Heaven’s Gate.”
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
- 7/2/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
It had been a long time since I was in the same room with director Michael Cimino. My first job out of Nyu Cinema Studies was in the publicity department at United Artists in New York, where I witnessed the long delays on Cimino’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 1978 anti-war diatribe “The Deer Hunter,” the period western “Heaven’s Gate.”
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
- 7/2/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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