AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Zack Snyder's 'Fountainhead' adaptation draws interest from wealthy backers after studios balked
Zack Snyder says unnamed wealthy individuals want to back his long-stalled adaptation of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead", a project Hollywood studios have repeatedly refused to touch. The filmmaker disclosed on a recent episode of the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast that he has written 10 of 12 episodes for a limited series based on Rand's 1943 […] The post Zack Snyder's 'Fountainhead' adaptation draws interest from wealthy backers after studios balked appeared first on American Almanac .
Zack Snyder says unnamed wealthy individuals want to back his long-stalled adaptation of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead", a project Hollywood studios have repeatedly refused to touch. The filmmaker disclosed on a recent episode of the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast that he has written 10 of 12 episodes for a limited series based on Rand's 1943 novel, and that "very powerful, very wealthy people" have expressed interest in financing the project outside the traditional studio system. It is the clearest signal yet that Snyder intends to get the series made, with or without Hollywood's blessing. Snyder has been trying to bring "The Fountainhead" to the screen for roughly a decade. The novel, a story about an uncompromising architect who refuses…Open