Atlas Shrugged (2008)
When I was on my flight to Colorado, one of the flight attendants noticed that I was reading Atlas Shrugged and informed me that it was going to be a movie with Angelina Jolie. I looked it up on imdb.com and it is true - Angelina Jolie will play Dagny Taggart. Sweet, I am looking forward to this. Hopefully I will be done with the book by then. I hope they do it justice - from a lot of the comments on imdb, it looks like people think this 1000+ page book will be butchered by trying to fit it into a two hour movie.
From imdb, here is some trivia about Atlas Shrugged:
According to Variety, The Godfather producer Albert S. Ruddy spent years trying to bring Atlas Shrugged to the big screen, attracting the interest of Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway along the way.
In the late ’70s, NBC had plans to bring “Atlas Shrugged” to television as one of the multi-part mini-series popular at the time. Ayn Rand wanted Farrah Fawcett to star, but the project never materialized.
