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===Film=== {{Main|The Fountainhead (film)}} In 1949, Warner Bros. released a film based on the book, starring [[Gary Cooper]] as Howard Roark, [[Patricia Neal]] as Dominique Francon, [[Raymond Massey]] as Gail Wynand, and [[Kent Smith]] as Peter Keating. Rand, who had previous experience as a screenwriter, was hired to adapt her own novel. The film was directed by [[King Vidor]]. It grossed $2.1 million, $400,000 less than its production budget.{{sfn|Hoberman|2011|pp=96β98}} Critics panned the movie. Negative reviews appeared in publications ranging from newspapers such as ''The New York Times'' and the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', to movie industry outlets such as ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' and ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', to magazines such as ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Good Housekeeping]]''.{{sfn|Hoberman|2011|pp=96β98}}{{sfn|Gladstein|1999|p=118}} In letters written at the time, Rand's reaction to the film was positive. She said it was the most faithful adaptation of a novel ever made in Hollywood.{{sfn|Rand|1995|p=445}} and a "real triumph".{{sfn|Rand|1995|p=419}} Sales of the novel increased as a result of interest spurred by the film.{{sfn|Gladstein|2009|p=95}} She displayed a more negative attitude later, saying she disliked the entire movie and complaining about its editing, acting, and other elements.{{sfn|Britting|2004|p=71}} Rand said she would never sell rights to another novel to a film company that did not allow her to pick the director and screenwriter, as well as edit the film.{{sfn|McConnell|2010|p=262}} Various filmmakers have expressed interest in doing new adaptations of ''The Fountainhead'', although none of these potential films has begun production. In the 1970s, writer-director [[Michael Cimino]] entered a deal to film his own script for [[United Artists]] starring [[Clint Eastwood]] as Roark, but postponed the project in favor of abortive [[biographical film]]s on [[Janis Joplin]] and [[Frank Costello]].{{sfn|Carducci|1989|p=40}}{{sfn|Mueller|2015}} The deal collapsed after the failure of Cimino's 1980 film ''[[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heaven's Gate]]'', which caused United Artists to refuse to finance any more of his films.<ref>{{cite web |title=Unproduced and Unfinished Films: An Ongoing ''Film Comment'' Project |url=https://www.filmcomment.com/article/unproduced-and-unfinished-films-a-ongoing-film-comment-project/ |access-date=March 15, 2021 |website=Film Comment |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512162448/https://www.filmcomment.com/article/unproduced-and-unfinished-films-a-ongoing-film-comment-project/ |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> Cimino continued to hope to film the script until his death in 2016.{{sfn|Thompson|2016}} In 1992, producer James Hill optioned the rights and selected [[Phil Joanou]] to direct.{{sfn|Oliver|1992}} In the 2000s, [[Oliver Stone]] was interested in directing a new adaptation; [[Brad Pitt]] was reportedly under consideration to play Roark.{{sfn|Weiss|2012|p=251}} In a March 2016 interview, director [[Zack Snyder]] expressed interest in doing a new film adaptation of ''The Fountainhead'',{{sfn|Siegel|2016}} an interest he repeated in 2018.{{sfn|Hipes|2018}} Snyder said in 2019 that he was no longer pursuing the adaptation.{{sfn|Dockterman|2020}} In 2024, he said that he unsuccessfully pitched a television series adaptation to [[Netflix]].{{sfn|Davis|2024}}
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