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Jun 7, 2010

Atlas Shrugged to Go Into Production




The entertainment site Deadline reports,

For almost two decades, Hollywood has tried unsuccessfully to turn Ayn Rand’s 1100 page classic Atlas Shrugged into a feature film with actresses ranging from Angelina Jolie to Charlize Theron to Faye Dunaway. John Aglialoro, the entrepreneur who 17 years ago paid $1 million to option the book rights, is tired of the futility and is taking matters into his own hands. He’s announced that he is financing a June 11 production start in Los Angeles for the first of what he said will be four films made from the book. Aglialoro, who had a hand in writing the script by Brian O’Tool, is taking on this ambitious plan with an unproven director, and is weeks away from production without stars to play Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden, John Galt and the other roles. For full story, click here.

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C.J. Maloney - 6/13/2010

If the movie is even half as bad as the book, it'll still be dreadful. My apologies to all the Randheads - while I agree with a good part of her intellectual output, besides "We The Living" her fiction reads as if written by a machine.