While AS would be well served by a TV or streaming series, Aglialoro has already plowed that soil.
I think it would be very cool to use the characters, settings, products and philosophies of the novel and expand the story into new adventures of Dagny, Hank, Francisco, et al.
Ann's prose and philosophy In AS are exquisite but as we see this community has the passion to take this prescient work to the next level.

I liked the near future idea. But John Gault should have been more mysterious like in the book. Who is John Gault? Kept me reading (the first time around) until he finally is identified as a person.

OMG I just realized I am going to have to buy a dozen more new T Shirts. And that's just the start.

OK. Math and numbers. If it is a short mini series, say, 10 episodes. 42 mins of program per hour on commercial TV. That equals 420 mins or 7 hours. Not much longer than the screen trilogy. If purchased for a full single season program of 24 episodes you are out over 16 hours. Plenty of time to cover all the characters and do justice to the story. The Galt speech still has to be trimmed to about what it was. However, if you get a commitment to 24 episodes and don't get the ratings the whole thing might not make it on the air. A period piece will be more expensive unless you turn to even more CGI effects. CGI is also very expensive. Big CGI films cost 150 million plus for a couple of hours on screen. Of course everyone wants the message to come across loud and clear. But you also have to add plenty of soap opera and a bit of action to keep people coming back every week. Cliffhangers always help keep an audience once established coming back for more. When you decide on TV you are playing a big money game. A pilot episode may have to be made and pass muster before a lot of money is committed. If you can get a script the quality of Lonesome Dove you will have a winner. Of course that was only 6 hours. Keep all these things in mind and the challenges presented before you get too excited. I think a pilot will have to be produced before a big money commitment is made.

Ayn Rand was so far ahead with her vision and warnings, and she had an real affect of so many people. Little did she know, though I am sure she hoped, her efforts would delay the day she knew might eventually come. I think a TV show should be set in 'the day after tomorrow' because it makes for better entertainment and allows a much broader storyline to be developed. You can be true to Ayn Rand's teachings and incorporate them throughout the series, using recent past happens along with present day, to teach people to think, in an entertaining way, as she did naturally, if you have A then you add B, you will get C. Maybe showing people they can make a difference if they take actions to change things today, then their tomorrow can be changed as well. Empowering people is what she was all about and I think she would be proud to know she was still making a difference.

The problem with "Hollywood" is that they will do a "pilot" and it looks great and the money machine is on que, but the crap falls all to you know where.....
It needs to be right on the money as far as the legacy goes....but a TV show would be fantastic....

"the day after tomorrow"
Keep em guessing.....

I'll add one more vote for "the day after tomorrow" (TDAT). But don't get hung up on the various anachronisms that implies. For example, while railroads are something from the past, Elon Musk's Hypertube or a related concept can make them hip in a near dystopian TDAT world.
Also, while the plot is ideology driven carried by strong characters, Ayn's dialog and need to express the ideology leaves the characters frequently too one dimensional. To appeal to the broad audience that I'm hoping you aree trying for, you'll need to stray from a rigorous translation. There are good writers out there who can add depth to the personalities, insight into their motivations and most importantly characters with whom the audience can empathize. This will seem like heresy to the purists out there, but while Ayn did an admirable job of promoting Objectivism to the world, her vehicle can benefit from a bit of polishing.

Great news. Perhaps the story would work set in the near future, with an apocalyptic setting, or is that too clichéd by now?

the achievement of objectivism as a philosophy is it restores to man the power of reason as the means of knowing the world and how to fix what is wrong. A TV series can only show the successful application of reason in the future. Show me how great it would be to have the men women and kids of reason proudly achieving the future and it cant be n the past.

Great news!

've always felt that a TV miniseries would be the best format, as it's length could more accurately reflect the length and complexity of the novel, and more of the critical episodes could be included. And I believe it would capture the interest of a larger audience.

But artistic control and remaining faithful to the message is critical.

As far as setting: "the day after tomorrow", except, as someone else has suggested, perhaps flashbacks to real agencies and regulations (obvious example: railroads) and the consequences of those regulations.

I hate to sound cliché but here goes....OMG. In life-if timing is everything-it's now. The 24 hour news binge we are on will practically write each weeks program. I have read reviews from the 50's about AS. It's a love story, it's business, it's science fiction, it's philosophy.
One of my favorite current slogans-thanks to seeing it in the GG marketplace is-Atlas Shrugged-Now Non Fiction. It's a timely mini series that writes itself. I think as BHO policy implodes and the Clintons are proven slimy-again-it could be perfect. I was going to say jazz it up to get the non AR masses watching-but the circus we are watching...... you can't make it up. I hope this gets traction.

I like your ideas for the most part.

Referring to the past and showing that such agencies and regulations existed then, and their consequences would add significant credibility.

Updating things to refer to real agencies in the present seems good, but that may make it sound too polemical, whereas keeping the agencies realistic but generic/fictitious might work better, keeping the story more allegorical.

If you're going to include more FNC people in hopes of attracting that audience FORGET IT!!! The movies were such a disappointment in so many ways. If that's the best you can do, don't bother. You'll do far more harm than good to Rand and her ideas.

I like this, as well as what I said earlier. Show people the consequences of their actions.

I'd like it to be today, and the days after. Show how bad it is now, so people can relate. I've always thought of it at "20 minutes into the future".

It sounds exciting!! It needs to be set in modern day because it is almost impossible to NOT see it happening every day right in front of our noses. Looking forward to seeing it - especially with the same people :)

he already said they wouldn't - don't sweat it! and sometime sactors make characters their own - have you seen the pilot of Star Trek? Majel Barrett was Number One, a very Spock-like character.

I would set it in the future with flashbacks to the '50s. Because in real history, every clause in the "Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Law" was actually enacted in the US before the book was published.

I would also tinker here and there to fit real world events and institutions into the prophecy. Thus, "State Science Institute" becomes the EPA.

Atlas Shrugged is about a) people living their lives/dreams and getting things done and b) people making misguided efforts to stop them.

There are a lot of story possibilities in that, a lot of opportunities for villains who aren't just bad guys who need to be blown away but complex villains who think they're doing good and are trying to control people because of their own hubris or insecurities.

It's also a "brand" most everyone has heard of. The book is a fictional universe that's begging for a series of stories set there.

Wouldn't that be fabulous?

Absolutely I would say "the day after tomorrow". I thought it was brilliant how the producers made trains fit the storyline in the movies.
I think you also stayed true to the book and I know you will do that here as well. I hope I will be able to help in some way.

Alternate universe -- now that is an intriguing idea. Perhaps a "John Galt" in our universe discovering a window into the AS universe. There are many possibilities here . I would love to see "our" Galt figure out how to make a doorway to the AS Gulch just as our society collapses. Lots of possibilities here too.

Yes, fantastic. I always thought it should be on TV.
"The day after tomorrow"! Those who do not know her will really understand in light of what is happening in the world today. I can't think of a better time!

my wife and I can't wait----BRAVO!