There's no denying that Ayn Rand and her Objectivist philosophy of "rational self-interest" have gone a long way toward shaping our culture and politics, for better or for worse. But as we learned with Atlas Shrugged Part I, even fame and influence have their limits. The movie landed on the market with a dull thud,…
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Remember when producer John Aglialoro had only four weeks to put a film based on Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged into production? He had owned the option for years, and if he didn't get a film moving by summer 2010 he was going to lose it. Aglialoro had one director hired, Stephen Polk, and a…
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Here's perhaps the most unusual collection of sequel news we'll run this month. Let's start with Atlas Shrugged: Part 2, which producers say will shoot this year and be ready for release in October, the better to take advantage of a charged pre-election political climate. The first movie was made fast, with an unproven director…
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This is simply beautiful. The first part of the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's 'love it or hate it' novel Atlas Shrugged hit a few theaters early this year, and is now on DVD, the better to be the backbone of home drinking games. (Do a shot every time someone mentions metal or trains.) But…
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There's another odd wrinkle to the story about producer John Aglialoro hastily getting an Atlas Shrugged film into production in order to retain rights to the novel. When we reported on the film a few weeks back, Stephen Polk was set to direct. But yesterday, when we got info about the film actually going into…
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Atlas is finally shrugging towards theater screens. A few weeks ago we told you that producer John Aglialoro was going to get a feature version of Ayn Rand's novel together come hell or high water. And, indeed, cameras started to roll on Atlas Shrugged Part One over the weekend. Who are the star and director?…
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Can a film be pushed into production through sheer force of will? Over the decades there have been multiple attempts to film Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. In the last decade the movie has almost been made a couple of times, but plans have always fallen through. Now producer John Aglialoro, who bought the book…
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When the economic crisis went into full swing, bookshops started to notice an odd trend: people who hadn't read much more than a Grisham or Clancey novel in the last decade were suddenly rabid Ayn Rand fans. Atlas Shrugged, with its message of capitalism unfettered by government control, blasted back onto bestseller charts in the…
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