Modern Casting (Remake of The Fountainhead)

I like all of those except Peter and Mallory. Maybe Jared Leto for Peter and Philip Seymour Hoffman for Steven maybe (if he could slim down a bit). Good picks though.

All way, way too old. Stick with the ages in the book, not this film.

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I must say that your casting is right on.

I just finished the book yesterday and it just made its way onto my top ten.

I kept on fantasizing a modern-day adaptation/casting for the book including who would play who.

Roark must be elegant, well-structured, and his face must convey a million emotions without even saying a world. The latter needs to be the same for Dominique. I must say that the quarry scenes were my favorite and I would love to see that conveyed into film.

I even went on to think up movie posters. It would be something like having the actor playing Roark in a clear, serious headshot that takes up the whole poster and have the headline be: Franco is Roark, or the like. The same would go for Keating, Dominique, Toohey, etc.

It makes me itch to write a screenplay based on the book because I think it's just an amazing, mesmerizing piece of fiction, and I want to see today's stellar actors to be part of the movie. I think it'd be great.

Actually, my thought was James Franco as Keating.

The only one I care about is Dominique Francon. It's gotta be Catherine Zita-Jones because she seems so unattainable, you want her even more.

Someone asked who Steven Mallory was...

... and after considering it for a bit, I'm almost positive it's the 'failed' artist/sculptor whom Roark chose to sculpt the centerpiece of his all-faith temple from 3/4 along in the book.

Remember, Steven Mallory shot at Ellsworth Toohey, though he never understood why. An awesome character who deserves his own book or film.