Crusader Entertainment have bought the rights to Ayn Rand's 1957 novel
Atlas Shrugged, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Scribe James V. Hart has been hired to adapt.
Rated in a recent Library of Congress survey as the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, 'Atlas' follows one woman's quest to solve the enigmatic question of 'Who is John Galt?' -- the man who said he would stop the motor of the world and did.
The story is set in a near-future United States whose economy is collapsing because of the inexplicable disappearance of the country's leading innovators and industrialists and the growth of arbitrary power on the part of its politicians.