• • • GOP's Fear of Rand a 'Big Mistake' Says Atlas Shrugged Producer 
Tierney Sneed, US News & World Report Atheism  |Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Individualism  |Paul Ryan  |Image  | Twenty years ago, successful CEO and Ayn Rand disciple John Aglialoro bought the movie rights to the objectivist's opus Atlas Shrugged and tried for unsuccessfully to get Hollywood to make a film about a book the Library of Congress named the second most influential work in history.He was perplexed then when studios balked at producing the film, but soon came to believe that Hollywood feared the novel's conservative philosophical and political implications. In early 2010, as his ownership rights were close to expiring, he decided to turn the book into a movie trilogy himself, rushing to make the first two films so the second installment would be in theaters for the 2012 presidential election.   Published: 2012-10-03