Sounds like Hank Rearden's innovative alloy from Ayn Rand's ponderous tome. All the other steel foundries, with the government firmly in their pocket and seeing their monopolies threatened, gang up on Rearden to discredit his new metal as dangerous.
In the movie, the government agent negotiating with Hank to buy the rights to the alloy (in return for not confiscating it), was played by Armin Shimmerman. While watching him I imagined that he would pop out and say "Our government is willing to pay a substantial amount..... the sum of one million bars of gold-pressed latinum!!"
The Part 1 movie I thought was a pretty reasonable effort at making a decent film on a low budget, Part 2 was fairly poor and Part 3 a cinematic travesty.
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Sounds like Hank Rearden's innovative alloy from Ayn Rand's ponderous tome. All the other steel foundries, with the government firmly in their pocket and seeing their monopolies threatened, gang up on Rearden to discredit his new metal as dangerous. In the movie, the government agent negotiating with Hank to buy the rights to the alloy (in return for not confiscating it), was played by Armin Shimmerman. While watching him I imagined that he would pop out and say "Our government is willing to pay a substantial amount..... the sum of one million bars of gold-pressed latinum!!" The Part 1 movie I thought was a pretty reasonable effort at making a decent film on a low budget, Part 2 was fairly poor and Part 3 a cinematic travesty.