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Ayn Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED being brought to the big screen!!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Ayn Rand fans have something to look forward to, or dread, it seems. Her very famous book, ATLAS SHRUGGED, is moving forward as a film to be written by Randall Wallace (BRAVEHEART, WE WERE SOLDIERS) for Lionsgate. Angelina Jolie is attached to star as Dagny Taggart, the central character of the story. Once again, I am completely ignorant about this material. What do you guys, especially Rand's fans, think of this development?


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ohhh....boy
by Jimmy Jazz
Oct 18th, 2006
09:41:00 AM
ohhh....boy
by Jimmy Jazz
Oct 18th, 2006
09:41:11 AM
Agreed
by mr_shoreditch
Oct 18th, 2006
09:41:38 AM
we will see....
by rotten666
Oct 18th, 2006
09:42:05 AM
Ayn Rand Can Suck It
by Saluki
Oct 18th, 2006
09:47:51 AM
Her philosophy is a bit extreme...
by rotten666
Oct 18th, 2006
09:51:20 AM
Fountainhead Was A Major Studio Bomb
by Saluki
Oct 18th, 2006
09:51:59 AM
still waiting for...
by Datascream
Oct 18th, 2006
09:54:16 AM
Yes, We will love it you commie hippie traitor.
by Neo Con Snake Plissken
Oct 18th, 2006
10:08:01 AM
It'll be totally liberalized
by RogueWarrior65
Oct 18th, 2006
10:09:40 AM
Not to sound childish, but: BOOOO-RINGGG!
by CreasyBear
Oct 18th, 2006
10:10:01 AM
Ayn Rand
by DojoFreak
Oct 18th, 2006
10:11:15 AM
It's a bit simplistic to say that ......
by Jimmy Jazz
Oct 18th, 2006
10:12:30 AM
It's a bit simplistic to say that ......
by Jimmy Jazz
Oct 18th, 2006
10:13:06 AM
Fuck these double posts!
by Jimmy Jazz
Oct 18th, 2006
10:15:36 AM
Atlas Shrugged is a philosphy tome, so I don't think...
by Dagan
Oct 18th, 2006
10:17:40 AM
John Galt
by DojoFreak
Oct 18th, 2006
10:20:26 AM
Atlas Shrugged really isn't a "novel" per se
by Dagan
Oct 18th, 2006
10:24:11 AM
Dagan
by DojoFreak
Oct 18th, 2006
10:24:50 AM
Quick Lesson
by Montag666
Oct 18th, 2006
10:32:12 AM
Dagan
by WISEBLOOD
Oct 18th, 2006
10:32:45 AM
This is going to be an awful movie...
by WillowFan2001
Oct 18th, 2006
10:40:20 AM
This is one book...
by jimmy_009
Oct 18th, 2006
10:40:48 AM
objectivism
by dread pirate roberts
Oct 18th, 2006
10:41:44 AM
Jimmy Jazz
by Montag666
Oct 18th, 2006
10:43:16 AM
Have you guys even read the book?
by VanLingoMungo
Oct 18th, 2006
10:46:50 AM
What is Galt's age supposed
by DojoFreak
Oct 18th, 2006
10:47:29 AM
Mediocre Novelist
by AliaAtreides
Oct 18th, 2006
10:48:46 AM
The idea of Angelina Jolie in this movie
by vikingkitty
Oct 18th, 2006
10:50:01 AM
It's simple.
by ZeroCorpse
Oct 18th, 2006
10:52:28 AM
I always pictured Galt
by VanLingoMungo
Oct 18th, 2006
10:52:51 AM
This book sucks.
by Aragorn II
Oct 18th, 2006
10:53:47 AM
Steve Ditko is an objectivist
by Tacom
Oct 18th, 2006
10:53:58 AM
radio speech
by DojoFreak
Oct 18th, 2006
10:58:45 AM
But who'll make the sandwiches?
by Cameron1
Oct 18th, 2006
10:58:59 AM
What do you call a movie theatre full of neo-cons?
by Harry Weinstein
Oct 18th, 2006
10:59:08 AM
What this film needs is a big
by StarBlitzer
Oct 18th, 2006
11:00:14 AM
"The Passion of Ayn Rand"
by AliaAtreides
Oct 18th, 2006
11:08:01 AM
Quantum Physics really makes a mockery of...
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
11:09:55 AM
Watch "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" instead
by Tacom
Oct 18th, 2006
11:11:32 AM
ZeroCorpse...
by WillowFan2001
Oct 18th, 2006
11:11:34 AM
Killing Another Human Being
by AliaAtreides
Oct 18th, 2006
11:14:50 AM
Rational Self-Interest?
by Saluki
Oct 18th, 2006
11:19:12 AM
Zerocorpse
by WISEBLOOD
Oct 18th, 2006
11:30:14 AM
I think that...
by HillaryLovesMe
Oct 18th, 2006
11:34:55 AM
Re: Ayn Rand = L. Ron Hubbard
by Right Bastard
Oct 18th, 2006
11:39:34 AM
AliaAtreides
by Autobot Council
Oct 18th, 2006
11:42:38 AM
Deep Cover
by HillaryLovesMe
Oct 18th, 2006
11:42:46 AM
This is so not a neocon book
by cptrios
Oct 18th, 2006
11:44:22 AM
The Hulk
by NightArrows
Oct 18th, 2006
11:44:44 AM
Angelina Jolie
by _Kayser_
Oct 18th, 2006
11:46:41 AM
Who is John Galt?
by Clutch0
Oct 18th, 2006
11:50:55 AM
Sequel Ideas
by Autobot Council
Oct 18th, 2006
11:51:42 AM
Michael Bay Presents. . .Atlas Shrugged
by Clutch0
Oct 18th, 2006
11:57:46 AM
Frederick Nietzsche + Jackie Collins = Ayn Rand
by hailcrassus
Oct 18th, 2006
11:59:10 AM
Autobot Council
by AliaAtreides
Oct 18th, 2006
12:01:06 PM
Just to add...
by _Kayser_
Oct 18th, 2006
12:01:33 PM
Hey, glad someone posted that Rand quote.
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
12:02:36 PM
i won't hold my breath
by reckni
Oct 18th, 2006
12:02:37 PM
Hey, glad someone posted that Rand quote.
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
12:03:06 PM
damn, they need to redo The Fountainhead
by Russman
Oct 18th, 2006
12:06:22 PM
P.S.
by AliaAtreides
Oct 18th, 2006
12:09:19 PM
P.S.S.
by AliaAtreides
Oct 18th, 2006
12:12:05 PM
Poor Ayn
by Macktheknife01
Oct 18th, 2006
12:14:40 PM
"Who Is John Galt?"70's version that was to be made...
by Uncapie
Oct 18th, 2006
12:19:46 PM
"Who Is John Galt?"70's version that was to be made...
by Uncapie
Oct 18th, 2006
12:20:05 PM
Objectivism!
by rev_skarekroe
Oct 18th, 2006
12:21:24 PM
Tons of politics, yet both sides have reason to hate it
by minderbinder
Oct 18th, 2006
12:25:38 PM
Casting
by Montag666
Oct 18th, 2006
12:29:27 PM
ChrTh Shrugs at this news
by chrth
Oct 18th, 2006
12:29:54 PM
Montag, you need to familiarise yourself with...
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
12:37:42 PM
Didn't they already do a film on Ayn Rand's life?
by chrth
Oct 18th, 2006
12:39:24 PM
Sure, anchorite
by rev_skarekroe
Oct 18th, 2006
12:42:16 PM
I re-read the book about once a year.
by The Skeptical
Oct 18th, 2006
12:44:23 PM
I think most philosophies require you to be assholistic
by chrth
Oct 18th, 2006
12:46:28 PM
Rand hated commies so much, but she saw all black/white
by minderbinder
Oct 18th, 2006
12:48:32 PM
I am Familiar
by Montag666
Oct 18th, 2006
12:51:30 PM
Ayn Rand was a stupid bull dyke.
by s00p3rm4n
Oct 18th, 2006
12:53:40 PM
Montag
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
01:02:43 PM
Just porno and Ayn Rand
by conniebrean1
Oct 18th, 2006
01:03:58 PM
Deep Cover
by Montag666
Oct 18th, 2006
01:05:21 PM
1,084 pages of pure unadutlerated boredom
by Miami Mofo
Oct 18th, 2006
01:09:13 PM
Barbrady said it best
by harrys_site_sucks
Oct 18th, 2006
01:12:14 PM
Only thing worse than politics in the AICN talkback
by Jonesey1111
Oct 18th, 2006
01:21:29 PM
If it's provable...
by Montag666
Oct 18th, 2006
01:21:55 PM
Jonesey1111: Why the heck would we want to go elsewhere
by chrth
Oct 18th, 2006
01:25:19 PM
Ive always wanted to read Atlas Shrugged
by Lovecraftfan
Oct 18th, 2006
01:32:04 PM
The book insults the average man in huge way..
by lettersoftransit
Oct 18th, 2006
01:32:34 PM
I love this thread....
by rotten666
Oct 18th, 2006
01:45:31 PM
Dammit, I fall in the 60%
by chrth
Oct 18th, 2006
01:51:34 PM
Montag, I'm a physicist not a philosophy graduate...
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
02:02:28 PM
I loved The Fountainhead (the book)
by symphy
Oct 18th, 2006
02:02:47 PM
rotten666, "We the Living" has been made into a film.
by ExcaliburFfolkes
Oct 18th, 2006
02:04:21 PM
Deep Cover
by HillaryLovesMe
Oct 18th, 2006
02:08:10 PM
Blah
by NeotheLessar
Oct 18th, 2006
02:19:42 PM
Cod Profundity
by Montag666
Oct 18th, 2006
02:46:57 PM
Adrien Brody for Galt
by konkrete590
Oct 18th, 2006
02:48:22 PM
Brilliant Book. But Jolie can suck it.
by Rearden
Oct 18th, 2006
02:57:10 PM
Have fun anchorite...
by NeotheLessar
Oct 18th, 2006
03:02:21 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
by JohnGalt06
Oct 18th, 2006
03:02:24 PM
Cod Profundity....
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
03:10:30 PM
playa
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
03:14:13 PM
Oh yeah, this movie will suck
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
03:21:04 PM
This movie has '"Train Wreck" written all over it...
by drugstore cowboy
Oct 18th, 2006
03:21:18 PM
Whatever happened to James V. Hart's script?
by JohnGalt06
Oct 18th, 2006
03:24:45 PM
If they must make this movie...
by JohnGalt06
Oct 18th, 2006
03:28:48 PM
By saying that reality is subjective...
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
03:28:57 PM
Since we're on the subject of objectivism...
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
03:33:29 PM
Well Said playahatersball
by Montag666
Oct 18th, 2006
03:33:57 PM
Well no, playa.
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
03:36:33 PM
5 words
by WONKABAR
Oct 18th, 2006
03:43:51 PM
It's funny being called playa...
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
03:50:31 PM
Well, a tree that falls in a forest with no one to hear
by chrth
Oct 18th, 2006
03:50:44 PM
Chrth...
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
03:53:14 PM
The myth of a monolithic Hollywood ideology.
by NapalmSon
Oct 18th, 2006
03:55:58 PM
thanks Cod Profundity
by schrodingerscat
Oct 18th, 2006
04:02:59 PM
Hey schrodinger...
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
04:06:07 PM
Outstanding book, not for everyone....
by DoctorWho?
Oct 18th, 2006
04:06:23 PM
Ok, playa I see your points.
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
04:10:09 PM
schrodinger, I apologize
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
04:10:26 PM
Agreed...The Fountainhead was...
by DoctorWho?
Oct 18th, 2006
04:13:22 PM
Interesting note
by oisin5199
Oct 18th, 2006
04:15:21 PM
I am not a radiohead album...
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
04:22:22 PM
What I should have just said was..
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
04:25:21 PM
Sweet. Now there's a TBer
by Mechasheeva
Oct 18th, 2006
04:27:03 PM
playahatersball
by schrodingerscat
Oct 18th, 2006
04:33:47 PM
playahatersball
by schrodingerscat
Oct 18th, 2006
04:38:56 PM
Playa...interesting reasoning.
by Cod Profundity
Oct 18th, 2006
04:43:33 PM
That was hardly an Ad hominem attack
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
04:45:10 PM
Subjective/Objective
by clem_snide
Oct 18th, 2006
04:49:16 PM
whoops- ignore previous post
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
04:50:24 PM
Perception versus reality..
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
05:01:02 PM
"I destroyed that statue, because I loved it..."
by Billyeveryteen
Oct 18th, 2006
05:01:42 PM
I like The Fountainhead better; Atlas is overwrought
by Zardoz
Oct 18th, 2006
05:05:46 PM
I read Give Me Liberty a long time ago..
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
05:12:08 PM
They already made ATLAS SHRUGGED into a movie anyway...
by JohnGalt06
Oct 18th, 2006
05:15:25 PM
Following this thread is like....
by joegiant
Oct 18th, 2006
05:17:19 PM
JohnGalt06
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
05:19:36 PM
Ayn Rand...
by alienindisguise
Oct 18th, 2006
05:27:57 PM
playahatersball
by schrodingerscat
Oct 18th, 2006
05:29:37 PM
playahatersball
by schrodingerscat
Oct 18th, 2006
05:30:01 PM
Joegiant, you have some noble thoughts, but...
by Uncapie
Oct 18th, 2006
05:38:39 PM
Joegiant, you have some noble thoughts, but...
by Uncapie
Oct 18th, 2006
05:39:43 PM
Schrodinger..
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
05:46:47 PM
the thing that scares me..
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
06:17:23 PM
I gotta go do homework..
by playahatersball
Oct 18th, 2006
06:27:18 PM
playahatersball: yes, they were sent
by chrth
Oct 18th, 2006
06:53:02 PM
anchorite: subjective vs perception
by chrth
Oct 18th, 2006
07:06:19 PM
On a related note...
by Paul T. Ryan
Oct 18th, 2006
07:51:59 PM
Did I say Phys 101? I meant Psych 101
by chrth
Oct 18th, 2006
08:33:47 PM
If Atlas Shrugged is philosophy...
by empyreal0
Oct 18th, 2006
08:48:21 PM
anchorite, these days each color is exactly defined
by ExcaliburFfolkes
Oct 18th, 2006
08:53:46 PM
If a bear shits in the woods, will the Pope hear it?
by Uncapie
Oct 18th, 2006
10:03:41 PM
That other Horrible Ayn Rand Movie
by Larry of Arabia
Oct 18th, 2006
10:04:01 PM
Objectivism made easy
by maxwello
Oct 18th, 2006
10:26:56 PM
Objectivism made easy
by maxwello
Oct 18th, 2006
10:27:08 PM
HOW TO READ AYN RAND ...
by falawful-314
Oct 18th, 2006
10:59:14 PM
Dagny Taggart is blonde?
by kabong
Oct 18th, 2006
11:42:25 PM
Ayn Rand vs, Angelina Jolie
by IMissNewOrleans
Oct 19th, 2006
01:17:05 AM
Ayn Rand vs, Angelina Jolie
by IMissNewOrleans
Oct 19th, 2006
01:17:45 AM
Ayn Rand vs, Angelina Jolie
by IMissNewOrleans
Oct 19th, 2006
01:17:46 AM
Fountainhead
by mostdwnloadedman
Oct 19th, 2006
02:51:10 AM
Most accessible Objectivism primer would be
by Laserbrain
Oct 19th, 2006
03:04:45 AM
"No theory of physics has actually been proven"
by minderbinder
Oct 19th, 2006
07:11:18 AM
The Incredibles
by minderbinder
Oct 19th, 2006
07:42:25 AM
Will they include this scene?
by bingo the clown
Oct 19th, 2006
08:01:35 AM
It's fiction
by kadath
Oct 19th, 2006
08:12:04 AM
And a word about Ayn's ex-lover; Nathaniel Branden...
by Uncapie
Oct 19th, 2006
08:42:09 AM
I have no idea who Ayn Rand is..
by Mr_Sleep001
Oct 19th, 2006
08:47:56 AM
Terry Goodkind
by King_Midas
Oct 19th, 2006
09:24:44 AM
feh
by spidercoz
Oct 19th, 2006
09:36:51 AM
minderbender: you could NOT have picked a worst example
by chrth
Oct 19th, 2006
09:56:17 AM
If the institute president is any indication...
by CoffeeAndCinema
Oct 19th, 2006
11:53:03 AM
Objectivist Are Not Libertarian and Other Myths
by R Flagg
Oct 19th, 2006
12:36:25 PM
Minderbender, r.e. Ayn Rand and superheroes
by playahatersball
Oct 19th, 2006
03:04:14 PM
When Reading Ayn Rand...
by tensticks
Oct 19th, 2006
03:24:55 PM
Clearing Up the Philosophy
by Vaebn
Oct 19th, 2006
05:47:12 PM
Ayn Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED being brought to the big scre
by pedro2112
Oct 19th, 2006
05:54:08 PM
How do you reconcile...
by minderbinder
Oct 19th, 2006
06:21:13 PM
The funny thing about "Objectivism"
by FluffyUnbound
Oct 19th, 2006
06:45:36 PM
pedro
by schrodingerscat
Oct 19th, 2006
06:53:36 PM
Vaebn
by schrodingerscat
Oct 19th, 2006
07:00:00 PM
And on the quantum physics issue
by FluffyUnbound
Oct 19th, 2006
07:01:03 PM
Thank you, Vaebn
by Trancer
Oct 19th, 2006
07:13:03 PM
Fluffy you'll see I gave a macroscopic example...
by Cod Profundity
Oct 19th, 2006
07:59:31 PM
Galts Speech - The Mini Version
by notme
Oct 19th, 2006
09:55:09 PM
RUSH...
by tensticks
Oct 19th, 2006
09:55:28 PM
Cod.
by FluffyUnbound
Oct 19th, 2006
10:27:40 PM
Rand's philosophy of "Selfishness"...
by DoctorWho?
Oct 19th, 2006
11:04:50 PM
Trancer, you idiot...
by playahatersball
Oct 19th, 2006
11:15:56 PM
minderbender, you herb...
by playahatersball
Oct 19th, 2006
11:23:36 PM
fluffy...
by playahatersball
Oct 19th, 2006
11:37:33 PM
Job, not jib
by playahatersball
Oct 19th, 2006
11:38:34 PM
it could be a good movie
by God Shamgodd
Oct 20th, 2006
12:19:29 AM
Playahatersball...
by Trancer
Oct 20th, 2006
03:59:48 AM
Fluffy I think you got the wrong end of the stick.
by Cod Profundity
Oct 20th, 2006
04:23:23 AM
Well, Cod.
by FluffyUnbound
Oct 20th, 2006
08:25:14 AM
playahatersball
by schrodingerscat
Oct 20th, 2006
12:00:49 PM
"explain how helping people, if you enjoy it, is not"
by minderbinder
Oct 20th, 2006
01:20:08 PM
And "you herb"?
by minderbinder
Oct 20th, 2006
01:22:49 PM
So...
by bloodred
Oct 20th, 2006
02:15:20 PM
JEREMY NORTHAM FOR JOHN GALT
by bwlass
Mar 7th, 2008
07:15:45 PM

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