Back in 2011 he sold publicly traded Brigham Oil & Gas to Statoil for $4.4 billion, part of the Norwegian giant's $20 billion push into American oil. He’s backed two other movies, less anodyne, more odd: Atlas Shrugged II (2012) and Atlas Shrugged III (2014). He got involved after filmmakers tackled the first part of Ayn Rand’s epic novel, but couldn’t find backing to complete the series. In Atlas Shrugged, Rand created an oil tycoon character named Ellis Wyatt, who made his fictional fortune figuring out how to coax oil out of Colorado’s thick layers of shale. He is an unknown.” Ayn Rand acolytes like Trump’s promises to cut corporate taxes.

Source: Forbes April 25, 2017 19:40 UTC