Many thanks to John and Harmon for bringing AS to the movie theater! When the AS screening I went to was over, I left the theater feeling exhilarated, thinking about how the years of disappointment at the previous failures to make the movie were erased by that 90-minute experience. Thank you for that. Looking forward to AS III!

Never thought I'd see Atlas on the big screen, but thrilled that I did. Parts I and II were great, and I look forward to Part III. I know that each of us on this site are searching for the Gulch and wish we were there! Hope to see you in Vegas.

Joe: we have such interesting and provoking discussions and disagreements and yet you have managed to bring us all into harmony on this vote of thanks. For me , from a battered book that came from a copper mine in PNG in 1985, to our community of producers on this site, it my lifetime - Ms Rand, John, Harmon, Scott thankyou for your inspiration and energy. I look forward to the DVD as soon as its available.

Thank you both, and all the folks who worked so hard to put this whole thing together! The Gulch is a lifeline for me, virtually alone in a sea of progressives; now, I don't feel alone anymore.

Thank you all! I have really enjoyed this. Let's keep it going!

I seem to remember a potential deal with the producers/director of the Godfather movies that fell through when Rand demanded control over the script.

Hear, hear!

The Ayn Rand Institute used to have a program that handed out copies of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged to high school students. I'm not sure if it is still ongoing.

"animated version" is an interesting concept. It might be a way of getting Rand's message to a younger audience.

I read AS first only a couple years ahead of you. There have been a number of people out Hollywood way that expressed interest, only to back off. It really did seen to me that there was a effort to make sure this most worthy book never became a film. So, I too am grateful to Jon and Harmon for following through and making this happen.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I will never forget sitting in the theater waiting for the first part of Atlas Shrugged to start. I had chills and tears in my eyes, it was so momentous and meaningful for me.

It has long been my contention that 'the Arts should lead'. SF writers produced stories of robots and computers and psychic powers and rockets. And so we built them. But since the 1970's what has been fashionable to write has been dystopias where the solution is to 'take down' the greedy rich folks who are in power and to abjure the technology (which always creates a frankenstein effect). Anti-heroes abound; heroes are rare. (Thank you, Roddenberry and Straczynski for some heroes.)

Most people have never heard of Atlas Shrugged.

I know only a handful of people who have read any of Ayn Rand's works. The philosophy 'stuck' with about half of the people who have done the reading. The rest of my friends seem to be very intelligent and extremely creative bleeding liberals. (I am not sure how that works out...) When it comes down to it, that means that there are 2 or 3 people in mine environment with whom I can discuss issues of liberty and self-determination.

The people who believe in 'group think', in 'gestalt', in socialism have no trouble 'standing under one umbrella' - and so they own the political and educational system of the US. The people who believe in individualism and independence and self-determination disagree with each other at the drop of a hat - and so they are powerless. We need an umbrella. We need an umbrella under which we can stand and say, "I do not completely agree with you, but you can stand next to me and we will make a common purpose."

The Arts should lead. Thank you, John and Harmon, for opening up an umbrella that is big and beautiful and under which many of us are willing to stand together.

Jan

I echo your thoughts. Thank you for making an impact in our country and making more people aware of the direction our country is headed unless we change. Now try to get this as a series on Netflix. Also a animated version may be a good way to tell the story in accordance to following the book version.

Yes! Thank-you!

Huzzah!

Thank You All, ladies and gentlemen, for the movies
and this website and your continued support!!!
-- john powers mason, p.e.

hear, hear!

A big thank you from me as well.

The long long wait for us is nearly over.

John and Harmon.
I could not agree more with Joseph.
Thank you both and the entire production crew.
Cheers

And, so say us all.

Your right Rex, not that the films haven't been wonderful