Writer-director Randall Wallace is to direct Angelina Jolie in the adaptation of Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, according to Variety.
A movie version of "Atlas Shrugged" has been long in the making. Producer Al Ruddy tried for years, attracting the interest of Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway along the way.
Jolie is another longtime fan of Rand's, and she was eager to play the role of Dagny Taggart, the most powerful female character in any of the Russian-born author's books.