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ATLAS SHRUGGED gets a new screenwriter and director!!!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. To totally put a nerdy spin on this, I've had BIOSHOCK on the brain since the game hit. It's awesome and takes a lot of inspiration from Ayn Rand's novel, ATLAS SHRUGGED. I doubt the Angelina Jolie/Lionsgate film version will have weird little zombie-ish girls and giant mechanical monsters with drills for arms, but I'm sure it'll be okay without them.

We know that BRAVEHEART's Randall Wallace took the first stab at adapting Rand's book and we now know that he was able to boil it down to 127 pages of script.

Now Lionsgate has hired Vadim Perelman to rewrite and direct the flick, but it looks like Wallace will still be involved. I quite like Perelman's first film, THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, so I'm curious to see what he brings to this flick. Lionsgate says an early 2008 start date is likely.


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Ken Levine
by apStalin
Sep 5th, 2007
12:58:05 AM
Literary adaptations ...
by ye olde shiza
Sep 5th, 2007
01:01:40 AM
ANTHEM please
by master bitchfist
Sep 5th, 2007
01:03:54 AM
BIOSHOCK is not Atlas Shrugged
by master bitchfist
Sep 5th, 2007
01:05:33 AM
What happened to Perelman doing "The Giver"?
by Lenny Nero
Sep 5th, 2007
01:09:00 AM
Great premise...
by TheRealSeveren
Sep 5th, 2007
01:10:03 AM
Wasn't this the book that Officer Barbrady...
by DerLanghaarige
Sep 5th, 2007
01:12:13 AM
Quint is mistaken
by playahatersball
Sep 5th, 2007
01:26:10 AM
bioshock basically tries to explain in videogame form
by Winterchili
Sep 5th, 2007
01:27:01 AM
LOL... "Battlefield Earth" time for the Rand kooks.
by Daddylonghead
Sep 5th, 2007
01:45:46 AM
Rand is a kook.
by Midol Boy
Sep 5th, 2007
02:23:01 AM
RAND is Brilliant. ATLAS is Brilliant. BUT . . .
by Rearden
Sep 5th, 2007
02:32:46 AM
Objectivism = Scientology
by Thick McRunFast
Sep 5th, 2007
02:40:27 AM
Countdown to flood of outraged objectivist dorks... 3…
by Daddylonghead
Sep 5th, 2007
03:20:04 AM
Objectivism = Nazism with a better name.
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
Sep 5th, 2007
04:03:22 AM
i am reading this book now
by i kick tits
Sep 5th, 2007
04:14:01 AM
Can't wait to see how they mess this up
by vikingkitty
Sep 5th, 2007
05:45:08 AM
Actually, Master Bitchfist
by vikingkitty
Sep 5th, 2007
05:51:07 AM
How about a Bioshock movie? That'd be niffty.
by Yeti
Sep 5th, 2007
06:00:01 AM
midol boy, twit of the day
by classyfredblassy
Sep 5th, 2007
06:15:24 AM
Bioshock
by DrManhattansUnit
Sep 5th, 2007
07:04:27 AM
127 pages?
by Strabo
Sep 5th, 2007
07:45:19 AM
Ooh, I hope they do Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard!
by rev_skarekroe
Sep 5th, 2007
07:49:23 AM
Unadaptable.
by Tourist
Sep 5th, 2007
08:41:47 AM
Atlas Shrugged is very adaptable
by jimmy_009
Sep 5th, 2007
08:48:38 AM
Here's my theory...
by RogueWarrior65
Sep 5th, 2007
08:55:44 AM
Tourist
by Strabo
Sep 5th, 2007
08:59:19 AM
The problem with Rand's theories....
by OBSD
Sep 5th, 2007
09:46:42 AM
DrManhattansUnit Wins
by Saluki
Sep 5th, 2007
09:46:55 AM
Atlas Shrugged was to be filmed in the 70's.
by Uncapie
Sep 5th, 2007
09:57:06 AM
I enjoyed "The Passion of Ayn Rand"
by Smerdyakov
Sep 5th, 2007
09:57:08 AM
Taggart and Galt
by Uncapie
Sep 5th, 2007
10:01:21 AM
As an Rand fan I'm a bit
by Omar B
Sep 5th, 2007
10:15:07 AM
Objectivism...
by MC Vamp
Sep 5th, 2007
10:22:54 AM
LOL MC Vamp! Good call.
by Omar B
Sep 5th, 2007
10:24:54 AM
Anybody know what the heck happened to THE GIVER?
by Freakemovie
Sep 5th, 2007
11:05:02 AM
My Struggle
by Midol Boy
Sep 5th, 2007
11:22:10 AM
People can NEVER have a completely objective POV
by Tacom
Sep 5th, 2007
11:27:52 AM
What is wrong with Rand's theory?
by Russman
Sep 5th, 2007
11:30:06 AM
Objectivism, Nazism, Communism, Socialism...
by Midol Boy
Sep 5th, 2007
11:30:35 AM
Who needs a POV when you've got a FPS!
by Abin Sur
Sep 5th, 2007
11:30:45 AM
Christ, there are some dipshits on this board.
by Uga
Sep 5th, 2007
11:31:17 AM
She always spurs depbate
by Omar B
Sep 5th, 2007
11:38:37 AM
without rand
by ironic_name
Sep 5th, 2007
11:43:08 AM
monica bellucci
by ironic_name
Sep 5th, 2007
11:46:25 AM
Omar B
by Strabo
Sep 5th, 2007
12:13:33 PM
ChestBumpingFatKids
by Strabo
Sep 5th, 2007
12:38:20 PM
Starship Troopers
by Toonol
Sep 5th, 2007
01:04:31 PM
right wing bullshit
by iwontwin
Sep 5th, 2007
01:04:40 PM
I'm Catholic but not offended by Rand dissing Jesus.
by Tacom
Sep 5th, 2007
01:06:29 PM
Time for a fun link
by theoneofblood
Sep 5th, 2007
01:45:35 PM
You haters...
by Montag666
Sep 5th, 2007
01:46:49 PM
Strabo
by Omar B
Sep 5th, 2007
01:59:55 PM
Odd
by Kree42
Sep 5th, 2007
02:24:22 PM
Kree42
by Omar B
Sep 5th, 2007
02:35:13 PM
Funny thing about the haters...
by infallible
Sep 5th, 2007
02:57:55 PM
Books about Individual liberty
by ButtfuckZydeco
Sep 5th, 2007
02:58:32 PM
objectivism
by RictusGrin
Sep 5th, 2007
03:01:07 PM
There certainly a lot of Ellsworth Toohey's here today.
by Uncapie
Sep 5th, 2007
03:01:24 PM
BIOSHOCK: THE MOVIE....now
by the ironking
Sep 5th, 2007
03:28:56 PM
Who is John Galt?
by RictusGrin
Sep 5th, 2007
03:31:53 PM
Ayn Rand was a pice of shit.
by Angry Mean Panda
Sep 5th, 2007
03:58:05 PM
Uncapie
by Montag666
Sep 5th, 2007
04:16:57 PM
More lessons for the obviously learning impaired
by Montag666
Sep 5th, 2007
04:26:03 PM
"War just kills more consumers, that's bad."
by Daddylonghead
Sep 5th, 2007
05:40:58 PM
Daddylonghead...
by Tourist
Sep 5th, 2007
06:39:34 PM
Atlas Shrugged IS Important
by Spank
Sep 5th, 2007
07:21:31 PM
Actually, Daddylonghead & Tourist
by Montag666
Sep 5th, 2007
07:22:36 PM
By the way Soylentman...
by Spank
Sep 5th, 2007
07:30:33 PM
brobdingnag
by Montag666
Sep 5th, 2007
07:40:36 PM
I don't know...
by Tourist
Sep 5th, 2007
08:11:23 PM
Can't wait--it'll be an entertaining disaster...
by Bob Cryptonight
Sep 5th, 2007
08:23:58 PM
Thanks, Montag666. I met Nathaniel Branden once.
by Uncapie
Sep 5th, 2007
08:25:40 PM
Nothing like Any Rand to get the left all sweaty . . .
by Fletch F. Fletch
Sep 5th, 2007
08:58:18 PM
Angelina Jolie? o_O
by Ikaruga
Sep 5th, 2007
09:23:47 PM
Boring!
by Mindraven
Sep 5th, 2007
09:41:04 PM
Get Cameron Diaz to star in it
by classyfredblassy
Sep 5th, 2007
10:02:13 PM
House of Sand and Fog ruled
by And Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu
Sep 5th, 2007
10:45:44 PM
Uncapie, get your facts straight.
by detinue
Sep 5th, 2007
10:52:05 PM
I'd like to see monsters with drills for arms in ATLAS
by MrMysteryGuest
Sep 5th, 2007
11:09:07 PM
PRIVATIZE THE SIDEWALKS!!!
by Daddylonghead
Sep 5th, 2007
11:32:31 PM
Bioshock movie would be cool
by Ikaruga
Sep 6th, 2007
12:01:52 AM
Thanks, detinue...
by Uncapie
Sep 6th, 2007
01:20:14 AM
Rand's philosophy (like many
by the ironking
Sep 6th, 2007
02:36:50 AM
Ayn Rand has chosen HD-DVD, and here's why!
by the_false_maria
Sep 6th, 2007
03:07:16 AM
Waiting for Keannu Reeves in "Also sprach Zarathustra"
by C.K. Lamoo
Sep 6th, 2007
09:57:14 AM
Rand was wrong about ATLAS SHRUGGED.
by Frietag
Sep 6th, 2007
04:32:15 PM
I HOPE THIS CRAP NEVER SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY.
by Proman1984
Sep 6th, 2007
11:40:07 PM
Who is John Galt, and Why . . .
by kevinwillis.net
Sep 6th, 2007
11:52:13 PM

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