Director Zack Snyder Says 'The Fountainhead' Is His Next Project

[TeamPooka]

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.” The exchange was documented by a Twitter user.

Link to tweet

Snyder and his Cruel & Unusual Films have a deal on the Warner Bros lot where he has made all of his feature films since his debut, 2004’s Dawn of the Dead at Universal. It’s possible that this could be made outside Warners, however. Corporate sibling HBO for example was in talks with Snyder a few years ago about a TV version of Watchmen, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, which he adapted into a 2009 film. Those talks ended, however, and now Damon Lindelof is developing the project.

The Fountainhead, Rand’s first novel, was made into a 1949 movie starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal directed by King Vidor. Rand also wrote the screenplay.
http://deadline.com/2018/05/zack-snyder-the-fountainhead-next-project-1202398869/

[regnaD kciN]

1. I'm sure THAT'S going to go over well...

Seriously, considering what a disaster the three-film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged turned out to be, I doubt Hollywood is going to be too eager to bankroll another Randroid adaptation — particularly when this is a story about an architect who blows up his own buildings rather than let his design be compromised, rather than a (comparatively) action-filled apocalyptic fantasy.

[TeamPooka]

12. lets hope

[Vogon_Glory]

2. So let me get this straight. The Fountainhead is a movie about

An strong-willed architect who would rather blow up his buildings rather than compromise his designs.

Is it just me, or does this concept make me think of certain Tr*m* properties where the builders also didn’t compromise and add certain niggling little things like water sprinklers or safety intercoms if their buildings had a fire or some other disaster?

[pansypoo53219]

3. luckily it is very likely to be a confusing mess.

i want my time back for batman vs superman.

[Mc Mike]

4. Hate all his stuff. Not surprised.

Can't imagine anything more irrelevant to view, than this new project of his.

[Achilleaze]

5. The republican fountainhead is disgusting

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. This might be a good thing. He almost

fucked the DCEU out of existence. Hopefully he can do the same for this late idiot's garbage.

[irisblue]

8. Libertarian boys do like that bright shiny toy.

[MFM008]

9. Zzzzzz

I'll be sure to miss.

[bobbieinok]

10. Wasn't a movie made of this book yrs ago with some big star?

[MountCleaners]

11. Yes, with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal

Having seen it, we don't need another one.

Rand's individualism is melodramatic. The story is crap and the writing is crap.

[regnaD kciN]

18. Supposedly, it's the only Hollywood movie ever...

...where the screenwriter obtained a court injunction forbidding the cast or director from changing any lines in her script.

[First Speaker]

19. I've always rather liked the film...

...yes, of course it's crap on one level. Pulp melodrama. But it's fascinating pulp melodrama, utterly unreal in its issues but it does have its own atmosphere and point-of-view...even if it's one that I despise. Cooper gives Adam Roarke that God-like authority he could convey. And that final shot of him on top of his skyscraper in the clouds--maybe the greatest camp moment in the history of films. It's not like any other movie--and thank God for that!--but I'm rather glad it exists...

[hatrack]

13. Here, let me save you all some time and effort . . .

[gratuitous]

14. It was inevitable

After the smashing box office success that was the multi-part treatment of "Atlas Shrugged," you just knew Hollywood would be looking for other works by Rand to turn into a cash machine.

[haele]

15. Here's my version of "The Fountainhead" -

A halfway decent and brutally handsome graphic artist uses privilege and bullshitting to make it through Architecture school (cribbing his engineering notes from a brilliant and soon to be ex-girlfriend he used, abused, and tossed aside for a rich girl), bullshits and yes-mans his way into a lucrative partnership leveraging other people's engineering to appear "brilliant".
He lets it all go to his head, designs a breathtakingly beautiful but impractical high rise luxury apartment spire complex with fatal flaws (as in, there is a helixed filigree web of cantilevered bridges, balconies and private atriums with decorative arch and "floating waterfall" structures between the glittering spires that can only be functionally stable under load in half earth's gravity and a high wind will tear components apart above the 10th floor) that he ignores as "useless regulations" and "petty bureaucracy"
("You all are too limited to understand and recognize genus! You want to hold me down and force me down to your level to be a socially accepted shell of a man!" ).

Because of his dismissal of regulations, it ends up being built in a country lead by wealthy corrupt oligarchs at great human cost, coming in "on time and within budget".
The building's grand opening is scheduled, a huge party with world media and thousands of wealthy guests in the main atrium ballroom on the 50th floor, despite government warnings of a potential severe windstorm (like a thunderstorm or maybe a haboob) developing in the region.

The party goes on, the storm hits, the buildings suffer power outages, collapse within a half hour or so (allowing for a lot of recriminations and exposition) and lots of rich, important (ahem) oligarchs and their hangers-on die because of a narcissist ignoring the reasons for those petty regulations and government bureaucracy.

The End

Haele

[librechik]

16. Oh, right. The Watchmen guy. nt

[dawg]

17. Couldn't we just make movies based on Rush albums instead?

I'd go to see Permanent Waves.