“even tho’ Rand had a lot of say in it’s filming, she was still unhappy - and didn’t want Hollywood to get it’s hands on “Atlas””
I’m not sure how correct you are. FWIW, IMDB says:
# According to Variety The Godfather (1972) producer Albert S. Ruddy spent years trying to bring Atlas Shrugged (2009) to the big screen, attracting the interest of Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway along the way.
# In the late 1970s, NBC had plans to bring Atlas Shrugged (2009) to television as one of the multi-part mini-series popular at the time. Ayn Rand wanted Farrah Fawcett to star, but the project never materialized.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/trivia
I had heard Angelina Jolie was involved in this project, but until this thread, had never read that it was to be a mini-series. FWIW, mini-series plans appear abandoned (that’s the inference I draw from IMDB) and if movie ever appears, it’s now on tap for 2011 (nearly 50 years after the book first was published).
My head just exploded.
...did I say that Dagny Taggart was smokin' HOT, or what?
Cheers!