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With 'Atlas Shrugged,' Hollywood may have its first anti-bailout movie
By Steven Zeitchik
Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist.
After decades in development hell, Ayn Rands capitalism-minded Atlas Shrugged is taking new steps toward the big screen with one of the film worlds most prominent money men potentially at its center.
Ryan Kavanaughs Relativity Media is circling the Baldwin Entertainment project and could come aboard to finance with Lionsgate, which got involved several years ago.
Rands popular but polarizing book its derided by many literary critics but has a huge public following tells the story of Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive trying to keep her corporation competitive in the face of what she perceives as a lack of innovation and individual responsibility
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