Atlas Shrugged gets a June start

After one too many false stars, it looks like John Aglialoro is taking movie matters into his own hands. The man who optioned the rights to the novel Atlas Shrugged, written by Ayn Rand, decided to go full force with a June production start, reports Deadline. Only real problem is the lack of stars that are attached to the project.

Not only is this going straight into the depths of a quick pre-production to a rushed filming start, but Aglialoro announced that this will be the first of four features from the book series that will make it to the screen. Stephen Polk is directing the flick from the adapted script written by Brian O’Tool and Aglialoro himself. Polk’s only previous directing work includes Baggage, an independent feature released in 2008. With a almost practically unknown cast and crew, it’s now a question of whether or not it’ll catch anybody’s eye. Read on to see what exactly this story is about.

The book explores a dystopian United States where leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, refuse to be exploited by society. The protagonist, Dagny Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while society’s most productive citizens, led by the mysterious John Galt, progressively disappear. Galt describes the strike as “stopping the motor of the world” by withdrawing the “minds” that drive society’s growth and productivity; with their strike these creative minds hope to demonstrate that the economy and society would collapse without the profit motive and the efforts of the rational and productive.

Melissa Molina

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