Yikes! The first trailer for the long awaited film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged just dropped…and boy does it ever look suspect. The book – which has turned idiots into conservatives and liberals into libertarians since it was first published in 1957 – is a compelling read, and it has never been too tricky to draw comparisons between its pages and those of the daily newspapers (especially since the financial collapse of 2008). But could the epic ever be made into a film? I’d heard talk of it being a Brangelina project a while back (Pitt as John Galt and Jolie as Dagny Taggart), and then of Charlize Theron taking on the Taggart role (both scenarios worked for me), but alas…no. What I just watched looks like it was squarely intended for the straight-to-DVD shelf, somewhere between “Larry The Cable Guy” and “American Pie 4”.