Screenwriter Randall Wallace has just landed a nightmare gig. Lionsgate has hired him to adapt Ayn Rand's massive tome, "Atlas Shrugged" into a feature film according to Variety.
Wallace however, should be used to lost causes. He wrote Pearl Harbor for Michael Bay after all. Knowing Bay, he probably didn't even read the script, just asked how many explosions there were in it. He also wrote Braveheart, so you know he's not a total dud and the guy seems to know his way around an epic.
But Braveheart and Pearl Harbor have action sequences in them to keep the audience awake. Atlas Shrugged has melodramatic corporate takeovers and a lot of heavy duty sermonizing. It's also frickin huge, and distilling it down into an acceptably sized script will be an incredibly difficult task.
Though there's no finished script, the movie already has stars. Wallace will be writing for Angelina Jolie, who's set to play the movie's female lead.
