Atlas Shrugged Finally Coming To The Big Screen?

[Doctor Jones]

After years of trying to get it on tv and film, it seems it will finally start filming in the summer.

Atlas Shrugged to Begin Shooting in June

Source: Deadline New York
May 26, 2010



"Atlas Shrugged," the 1957 Ayn Rand novel about a dystopian future, will move into independent production on June 11, according to Deadline New York.

The book was optioned in 1992 by John Aglialoro, who paid one million dollars for complete rights to a film version. Since then, a number of false starts have plagued the project, including former plans to develop the story as a television miniseries.

Aglialoro's current plan is to turn the massive novel into four features, directed by first timer Stephen Polk with a script by Brian O'Tool and Aglialoro himself.

No stars are currently attached, though Deadline reports that Charlize Theron and Maggie Gyllenhaal are the top choices to play the lead, Dagny Taggart. Failure to lock celebrity talent, though, is no longer an obstacle in Aglialoro's view and he plans to have the project move forward with or without big name stars.

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I know Bioshock was inspired by it, so this has got me interested. It's over a 1000 pages so yeah... I don't plan on reading it any time soon. Truthfully, I want a Bioshock film to happen before this.

[Kurosawa]

Same. Ayn Rand isn't my cup of tea.

[Mr. Todd]

And I want a Bioshock film as well, but it's very doubtful that it will happen anytime soon.

[ChickenScratch]

There have been talks of this for years. As you can see from my signature, I'm a huge fan of Ms Rand, I'm also an objectivist and I really would like to see this work. I personally think it's better as a 6 hour mini-series divided into 3 sections just like the novel is. Standard movie run time would leave out so much, but since they are gonna break it up into 4 rather than 3 movies I wonder about how things will be divided.