Congratulations are in order for Paul Ryan, who will be first in line to buy a ticket for Zack Snyder’s next movie: an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead.

The Fountainhead is a 1949 American black-and-white drama film produced by Henry Blanke, directed by King Vidor, and starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Robert Douglas and Kent Smith.

Critics panned the film, which did not recoup its budget; several directors and writers have considered developing a new film adaptation. In 2014, Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove created a stage adaptation, which received mixed reviews.

Ayn Rand’s effort to adapt The Fountainhead — i.e., to re-craft the novel’s action — began with two key statements. First, she defined the “general theme” (elaborating this even further in an undated note as “Specific theme, as presented in the screenplay”). Second, she set out the screenplay’s plot-theme.

Zack Snyder has talked about working on an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead since 2016, but now the director is saying this project will be his next film.