Ayn Randians have probably waited a long time for this one: a movie adaptation of of Ayn Rand’s 1957 Objectivist novel Atlas Shrugged. The only cast currently credited is Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggart, though there are eight people credited as producers, co-producers or executive producers. (Two have the last name of Baldwin, and the company is listed as Baldwin Entertainment Group.)

IMDB details state that Ayn Rand herself had wanted Farrah Fawcett for a TV mini-series that NBC had planned in the late 1970s but which never came about. Rand died in 1982 of lung cancer, but her other great Objectivist novel The Fountainhead was made into a 1949 movie starring Gary Cooper. (A few of her other works of writing were also made into movies.)

A 3D animated clip of “Atlas Shruggged” that’s unrelated to this production is shown below.

[sources: Egoist]