Brian Doherty on Set of Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt?

Despite losing money on the first two films in his trilogy based
on Ayn Rand’s individualist classic Atlas Shrugged,
businessman John Aglialoro is finishing what he started.
Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty visited the set of
Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt?, where
Aglialoro and his team are wrapping up their cinematic version of
Rand’s beloved (and also widely hated!) novel.

With a new cast and a new director, Aglialoro insists that
despite the novel’s theme of the sanctity of money fairly earned,
he’s doing this out of “love” for the ideas and inspiration of Ayn
Rand. “Someday I just want to go visit [Ayn Rand’s grave] and say
‘I got it done.’ What a magnificent mind, what a great
contribution,” he says about the author whose works jolted him and
helped him understand the world.

He’s not as sure as the rest of the world is that this
filmmaking endeavor will lose him money. But that’s less important
to Aglialoro than completing the contribution to the spread of
Rand’s message that he began.

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