Who is John Galt? Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer

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February 11, 2011 by Dane Carlson | 8 Comments

The Official Atlas Shrugged Movie trailer is out. Atlas Shrugged Part 1 opens in theaters April 15th, 2011.

Atlas Shrugged, if you don’t know, is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957. In the book, leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, led by John Galt, refuse to be exploited by society and go on strike.

Galt describes the strike as “stopping the motor of the world” by withdrawing the “minds” that drive society’s growth and productivity. In their efforts, these “men of the mind” hope to demonstrate that a world in which the individual is not free to create is doomed, that civilization cannot exist where men are slave to society and government, and that the destruction of the profit motive leads to the collapse of society.

Although the book received largely negative reviews after its 1957 publication, it achieved enduring popularity and consistent sales in the following decades. In the wake of the Great Recession, sales of Atlas Shrugged have sharply increased.

According to the film’s producers, the film will be the first in a planned trilogy similar to the three part structure of the book.