Writer of Braveheart making "Atlas Shrugged" movie with Jolie (my title)

Variety ^ | 10/17/06 | Pamela McClintock

[Oberon]

I cannot seem to get my hormones to match up with the really nice and smart guys.

From my point of view, that makes you rather the perfect date. I, on the other hand, would be utterly no good for you. My being married...well...like I said. =]

[x]

In a way, it's an inspiring capitalist story. Whoever holds Rand's copyrights is going to make an awful lot of money, and the real workings of capitalism trump Rand's loud and strident dogmatism. There's a moral in there, though it may be a bad one.

BTW, Randall Wallace, the writer involved here, is described this week as a devout Christian on the Christianity Today website. Is that strikingly appropriate or stunningly inappropriate or just ironic for a man who wants to bring Rand's novel to the screen? What is appropriate is that a man named Randall Wallace would have made Braveheart, the story of William Wallace.

People want to segregate things: that good Rand, that bad Jolie. But Jolie has shown a lot of the independence of a Rand heroine, for good or bad, and Randall Wallace, a guy out of Tennessee, who went to high school in Lynchburg, Virginia, and originally planned to be a minister sounds like the kind of person freepers would love. After all, he did make We Were Soldiers.

Wallace sounds a lot more admirable to me than Ayn Rand, and he brings Brad and Angelina up a bit in my esteem as well. Things get so mixed together in this world that it's best not to prejudge.

[GOP Jedi]

I think Jolie is too beautiful to play Dagney. I see her as a non-traditional beauty, such as a young Katherine Hepburn or Sigourney Weaver.

[JoeGar]

I can remember seeing a billboard in Houston around 1966 or 1967 that simply said, "Who is John Galt?". At the time, I had no idea. I assumed it was a local politician.