Last September, the producers of Atlas
Shrugged Part III: Who Is John
Galt? launched a Kickstarter campaign that ended up
raising $446,000 to help fund the final installment of the film
adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel about a world driven to the
brink of collapse by overweening redistributionist government. The
predictable response was cheap jokes from people whose
(mis)understanding of Rand only went as far as: “She’s that scary
chick who valorizes businessmen and the market.” Detractors assumed
that asking people to freely support something they valued was
altruistic and therefore un-Randian.
Producer and main financier of the trilogy John Aglialoro sees
it differently. (As would anyone who understands Rand.) Rand
believed in the glory of trading value for value—in this case,
money for a film that the giver wants to see made. Aglialoro says
he’s proud of the hundreds of $1 contributions he received from
people who he says told him: “I want to take some value of mine and
place it where I see value.” Brian Doherty visited the set in
February and talked to Aglialoro about the film, which hits
theaters this September.
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