We’d considered mentioning Shrugged in yesterday’s Rand post but felt compelled to hold back. We didn’t know why until now.

Yes, there is a Shrugged film project in the works, not slated for release until 2011, to star Whoopie Goldberg as Dagny Taggart and Ben Affleck as John Galt, and with Oliver Stone to direct.

Just kidding, Atlas Shrugged with Angela Jolie and Brad Pitt may not get screwed up too much. And Randall Wallace, writer of Braveheart, to pen it? Great but hopefully he’ll have forgotten everything he learned from Michael Bay and Ben Affleck on Pearl Harbor. At least we can be sure it won’t be as forgettable and horribly cast as Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong.

Rand’s writing is a little stilted and repetitive at times, showing her own fetishes (notice in The Fountainhead how often she mentions the position of hands and the exact disposition of the fingers on them) but her viewpoint is unique, her satire arch and every few pages there’s prose that exudes brilliance.

Heres a link to some Rand-y resources at the Ayn Rand Institute.

And golly here’s something to look forward to this July in Boston, OCon!