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Under Randall Wallace, the plan was to make a trilogy. Vadim Perelman's current adaptation plans a single movie about two hours twenty minutes long.
Angelina Jolie has been cast as Dagny Taggart. According to scriptwriter Vadim Perelman, Jim Taggart will be the main villain. Lillian Rearden will have a significant role. Francisco D'Anconia will be Dagny's childhood sweetheart, and Hank Rearden will be her current love interest. John Galt, whose identity won't be revealed until near the end of the film, will have a romance with Dagny that won't start by the film's end but which will be hinted at.Robert Stadler and Cheryl Taggart will not appear.
According to director Vadmir Perelman, the movie will "look very similar to the Forties, as if America had not gone into World War Two after the Depression." However, more accurately, the movie will probably be set in the mid or late 1920's, which is more historically accurate as to when the first diesel-powered locomotives started being implemented on railroads, like the one Dagny Taggart uses at the grand opening of the John Galt railroad.
According to director Vadmir Perelman, James Horner.
Here's one. In 1944 the Bretton Woods conference resulted in the gold standard for the dollar, and the next 20 years were prosperous. Then came Vietnam, and the gold standard disappeared in 1971, so we could print as many dollars as needed to support a war only politicians wanted. This quote on the current monetary fiasco could have been taken from Atlas Shrugged, written 50 years ago."Which failing financial institution will the administration pluck from the flames of crisis? Which will it let roast? Which market, or investment technique, will the regulators bless? Which in a capricious change of the rules will it condemn or outlaw?"In several countries in South America (Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina and a few other), governments are instituting policies of goods production control (establishing quotas, defining which products should be produced and by whom) and statization of companies, while establishing programs of redistribution of wealth that include free "salaries" to non workers and taxes on exports of goods of up to 85% (on the premise that they are "exceptional earnings"). The main theme of those governments discourses is "those that can produce should help those that need most" and "the hunger of the people comes from the selfishness of producers", well alligned with the looters discourse in the book. In fact, the book has been a good predictor of the measures taken by some of these books after a given situation that matches "Atlas Shrugged". An exodus of industries, investors and even workers has been observed as a result, with many more just stopping working as the payoff of government subsidies is better than that of production.
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