>>>For years, there's been "on-again, off-again" talk about putting Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" on the big screen.
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>>>Looks like some progress is being made:
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>>>http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/cat/atlas-shrugged-movie/
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>>>Not quite sure about Brad Pitt as John Galt, but Angelina Jolie would be perfect for the movie.
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>>I always saw Hank Rearden more of a main character in the book than Galt. I wonder how close the movie will follow the book?
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>My memory is vague by now, but wasn't John Galt more of a "question" (who is John Galt) than a character through most of the book?

Exactly! It was only towards the end of the book that Galt even directly came into the plot. It was all about the other characters and their frustration with society. Galt's world was just the new direction they wanted to go.