Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is getting a (probably bad) movie.
The moving-picture show for Atlas Shrugged , that brick o ’ Objectivist philosophical system by chain - smoke aficionado Ayn Rand , is in a uncanny billet . Its director was canned right before filming . The new director ? The male Pb , the dad from One Tree Hill . Cool ? The moving-picture show adaptation of Atlas Shrugged — which takes place in a dystopian America where an increasingly statist government is smother creativeness and make everyone sad — up until recently had no hurl and ( almost ) no budget ( well , $ 5 million ) ....