An Atlas Shrugged movie has been off and on again many times. Hope it is on and done right. A trilogy would be the best way to present the book without massive editing.
There certainly are many great potential cinematic scenes in the book; the first run of the train over the bridge of Reardon Steel; the destruction of the railroad tunnel; Dagny’s crash landing in Galt’s Gulch; Dagny meeting the ‘bum’ and former employee of the 20’th Century Motor Car company on board her railcar.
Since the book was written in the late 50’s, and does involve a lot of trains and train travel; it would be kind of cool if they gave the move a sort of retro-future look of the 1950’s.
The look and feel I would like to see if future dystopia—everything used to be modern and sleek, but socialism has burnt out the infrastructure and the people.
Then (Rand would scream from the grave but) make the dialog more conversational—keeping the words is fine—but let the people talk like people not brainwashed robots.
Well, shooting wrapped in July; it's now in post-production, including editing, and you can't get much closer than that. Nolte further says,
As of now the plan is to release part one of “Atlas Shrugged” in theatres sometime during the second quarter of 2011 and start production on the second part the following fall.