No clue yet as to the composer for the music or if the Concerto of Deliverance
will be depicted, but the sriptwriter reportedly said:



"'It's not very good literature...but I have respect for her.'"



Exclusive: Perelman on Atlas Shrugged

* By Heather Huntington *

/The/ House of Sand and Fog/ director talks about finally getting the
project out of development Hell./

Best known for /House of Sand and Fog/
<http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie/223516/house-of-sand-and-fog>,
writer/director Vadim Perelman
<http://www.reelzchannel.com/person/157599/vadim-perelman> is about to
come out with another book-to-movie adaptation, /The Life Before Her
Eyes/
<http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie/248226/the-life-before-her-eyes>,
which he was showing at last week's AFI Dallas International Film
Festival. But even though the drama, which stars Uma Thurman
<http://www.reelzchannel.com/person/103332/uma-thurman> and Evan Rachel
Wood <http://www.reelzchannel.com/person/204164/evan-rachel-wood>, opens
next week, it is hardly the most exciting project Perelman has on his slate.

As it turns out, Perelman has written an adaptation of /Atlas Shrugged/
<http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie/254346/atlas-shrugged>, Ayn Rand's
1957 novel about a female railroad magnate, Dagny Taggart, who is
struggling to keep her company afloat. The 1000+ page exploration of
Rand's philosophy of objectivism has been considered both off-putting
and monumentally influential to its readers.

However, the real story behind /Atlas Shrugged/ is the difficult (to say
the least) journey it has had making it to film. In fact, /Atlas
Shrugged/ is often cited as the quintessential example of a movie that's
been stuck in "development Hell," with various versions supported by
various investors and studios, with various writers and directors
attached nearly since it was published.

But somehow, Perelman's adaptation seems to be the one that may get off
the ground. "I wrote a script that they all liked for the first time,"
he says. "I was really true to the book and they said that I solved it,
finally. Not my words. I didn't feel I did, but they really liked it a lot."

What's most interesting is that Perelman managed this even though he
isn't much of an Ayn Rand fan. "It's not very good literature," he and I
agreed, "but I have respect for her."

Rumors abound as to who will play the lead roles in the movie, although
at present names like Angelina Jolie
<http://www.reelzchannel.com/person/137804/angelina-jolie>, Russell
Crowe <http://www.reelzchannel.com/person/154133/russell-crowe> and Brad
Pitt <http://www.reelzchannel.com/person/66843/brad-pitt> are all
supposedly attached. And it seems as though there will still be time for
things to change.

But at present, Perelman is cautiously optimistic. "Now I'm doing a
rewrite, a polish, as they say," he says. "And they seem to want to get
it done."

*Vadim Perelman's next movie, /The Life Before Her Eyes/, opens on
Friday, April 18, 2008.
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*http://www.reelzchannel.com/article/574/exclusive-perelman-on-atlas-shrugged
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