The moving-picture show for Atlas Shrugged , that brick o ’ Objectivist philosophical system by chain - smoke aficionado Ayn Rand , is in a uncanny billet . Its director was canned right before filming . The new director ? The male Pb , the dad from One Tree Hill . Cool ?
The moving-picture show adaptation of Atlas Shrugged — which takes place in a dystopian America where an increasingly statist government is smother creativeness and make everyone sad — up until recently had no hurl and ( almost ) no budget ( well , $ 5 million ) . Director Joe Polk was attached to the labor but obtain himself replaced before the camera began wrap last weekend . His refilling ? The moving-picture show ’s sensation , Paul Johansson , who ’s better known as the dad from CW teen drama One Tree Hill . Polk say this to say about his canning toDeadline :
I had some real epithet earnestly concerned , but it had to be a real feature film , and I feel like I had the rug pulled out from under me [ … ] When we talked about cast , even B - list casting , they were like , ‘ we do n’t need epithet . ’ It was great material , people were concerned , but there were scarlet flags . It ’s devastating to me . They replaced me with a TV actor , this has telecasting written all over it . They ’ve fired other masses . I was trying to encompass the spirit of Atlas Shrugged , and it will be interesting to see if they can still pull up it off .
Polk has hired a lawyer , so he contrive to sue someone over his shucking . Meanwhile , some folkssuspect that producer are just churn out a quick’n’easy movie merely to sustain on to the rights . give the confusion this project is in , there ’s a in effect opportunity the Rand close will be disappointed and Rand ’s critic will use this film for Mystery Science Theater 3000 - vogue reckon party .
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