"Atlas Shrugged" and is now in the process of making a movie out of it. A few years ago the puffy likes of Angelina Jolie was attached to the project now its down to a crew that would normally grace a weekend SyFy Channel TV movie.
Well what of it, Ayn Rand's turgid bloated objectivist screed is freakin' unfilmable in extremis, you'd have better luck adapting Das Capital or The Phenomenology of the Spirit as a big budget tentpole movie.
In fact as far as I am concerned, the only reason Atlas Shrugged is a novel is because Ayn Rand didn't have the intellectual wherewithal to produce a comparable work of philosophical distinction. Like all eternal sophomores she made some straw men talk on her behalf on the printed page and rubes came a'runnin.
And based on the link above, they are running still today.
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