Atlas Shrugged film to be released in 2011

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Five weeks of principal photography on a five million dollar budget (<a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/07/20/atlas-shrugged-adaptation-full-of-compromises" rel="nofollow">http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/07/20/atlas-s...</a>).<p>Sounds like it's going to be hilariously bad.

Here's some arguments against Ayn Rand's philosophy that aren't exactly shallow: <a href="http://noblesoul.com/orc/critics/" rel="nofollow">http://noblesoul.com/orc/critics/</a>

The sequel is already covered:<p><a href="http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif</a>

The cast seems awfully young considering how I had always imagined them to be while reading the book. I had pictured this early 20-century group of "captains of industries" to be mid-forties to late-fifties at least.

Going to have a separate film for that long-ass speech?

Right in time for election season.