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The previously announced TNT deal, in which the company planned to produce Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" as a Turner Network Television (TNT) original film, has been cancelled. Nonetheless, Ruddy Morgan Productions is currently circulating the completed Atlas script with the hope of attracting leading players..

4/20/02 As mentioned previously, TNT dropped plans for an Atlas Shrugged TV Miniseries, but producer Al Ruddy is still attempting to arrange production of an Atlas Shrugged movie. Meanwhile, according to a comprehensive article on the subject posted at the Atlas Society web site, John Aglialoro, who holds the film rights to the novel, is "looking at all the options in terms of how to structure the story as well as the project. After half a dozen scripts that tried to tell the whole story, it may be time to consider spinning out the core plot of the strike, which conveys Rand's essential message, and not trying to include all the subsidiary plot-lines, relationships, and consequences of the strike."

http://www.missliberty.com/FilmAtlas.html

[billybudd]

Atlas Shrugged was supposed to be a futuristic novel, but somehow railroads and diesel locomotives seem just a tad antiquated. Dagny should be running a spaceship company and Reardon Steel can be Reardon Fuel instead. The other technologies are still applicable though, like the giant holograms and the voice-recognition security. Maybe Galt's Gulch can be on the Moon.