Atlas Shrugged film confirmed; social conservatives in for a fun surprise
After a half-century of false starts, filming has finally begun on a film version of Ayn Rand’s final and most explanatory novel, Atlas Shrugged. The timing of this independent production (prompted though it was merely by a filmmaker’s potential loss of rights were filming not to have begun by last weekend) is rather splendid, as the election of Barack Obama and the consequent and confused perception that a free republic has now crossed some sort of line into statist tyranny has sparked a new round of interest in the novel on the part of conservatives – many of whom are in for some nasty surprises to the extent that they actually read and understand the book or make any further study of Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism. To wit…