I prefer the idea of the 8to9 hour series. There's just too much to put in a movie.

I would prefer a three season run rather than 1 miniseries

I am excited about the mini-series talk. Al Ruddy is an interesting character.

A movie wouldn't do justice to the story. I wanted to see a series with, at minimum, three seasons of ten one-hour episodes each. Like the Showtime treatment of King Henry VIII and Pope Alexander VI.

Some here have talked about following everyday people trying to make it in the world where everything is degenerating and finally collapsing. You could do a tragic story on the farmer who died on the road in Minnesota, a sack of wheat slung over his shoulder. Or a story on any of a number of characters you saw who took John Galt's advice and headed for the high hills. I'd like to see a new story on an amateur sailor who literally runs away to sea and seeks out Ragnar Danneskjöld, with a view to joining him.

The way to do it is to make it a Broadway/Roadshow event. It will need an auditorium type venue rather than a movie theater. Starting at 10 am light snacks are served. Movie starts at 11:00 am. Break for lunch, which is served as part of the ticket price. Restart a 2:00 pm for two hours. Break at 4:00 for drinks and snacks bathroom, etc. Movie starts at 5:00 and is over by 7:00 and people can go out or go home for dinner. But first, the most important person on the project must be the writer. Someone who can take the essence of the story, including its salient parts and make an exciting futuristic scifi out of it. You need not hit them over the head with the philosophic aspects, they'll get it. Then you need a director whose vision is identical to the writer's. As Hitchcock said, the actors are chess pieces to be moved by the director. Whew! Well, that's my take. In that way it will become an event, wherever it's shown and not just a movie.

I think Atlas Shrugged has been played out. What we need is a movie which starts where AS left off- basically the rebuilding of our country and how that could be done. AS #1 was well done, but the remaining 2 installments were pretty unimpressive, almost to the point of being boring. The actors were not good and it left you hanging s to what we can do NOW.

I would be interested in seeing a new Atlas Shrugged movie. Mayhap a miniseries..

I think the three movies we have are fine. They make the story about the same length as the Lord of the Rings (also three movies), which it is.

You'd need a miniseries that would last for at least 26 episodes of 1 to 2 hours each. Begin with all the main characters, the heroes and the villains, as kids, growing up, forming their world views, all the way through college. Then, show them going out into the world, dealing with their first sets of triumphs and failures, frustrations and victories. Next, comes the achievements - the John Galt Line, Rearden Metal, Hammond Motors, Wyatt Oil, etc. Follow that with the clash between the producers and the looters. Finally, bring on John Galt, and the coup de grace to mooching. It might take even more than 26 episodes, but this level of detail is necessary for the average guy to get it, in its full context.

Such an undertaking would require a "Harry Potter", "Star Wars", "Hobbit/Ring" series for the story to unfold properly, six 3 to 4 hour installments. Shifting continuity and casts hampered the first try, though it did break ground; the third came across as a cheap B-movie of the Forties. A series would play better, giving time to digest each episode and be truer to the book than the predessor.

When I first read AS, I said to myself, "This would make a great movie, but it would be too long. They should make a bunch of episodes, an hour and a half or two hours each, and show them on TV for consecutive nights."

That was 1971--years before the first miniseries ("Roots") was made.