It looks like a film version of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged will finally be a reality! At least the first 147 of 1000+ pages…
Fifty-some-odd years after its publication, Atlas Shrugged is still selling briskly, and is still controversial. Rumors of a film version–including one starring Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggart and Brad Pitt as John Galt–have so far come to nothing.
But now, it looks like Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 will be released sometime next year, made possible by a cast and crew of relative unknowns. Check out this behind-the-scenes short from Reason.tv:
After the travesty that was The Fountainhead movie, I’m not sure I could bear to watch it. I’m glad that they chose not to go with an all-star cast, though. I don’t think that it would have worked.