The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog are reporting that Ben Affleck is in talks to direct a new film called Argo,a film which revolves around the Tehran hostage crisis. George Clooney and Grant Heslov are producing.
The story comes from a Wired magazine article called “How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran.”
“The story centers on how, during the occupation of the American embassy by Iranians in 1979, a rescue effort was mounted by the CIA and the Canadian government to extract six U.S. diplomats.
The CIA used a disguise expert and concocted a scenario that involved the six being a Hollywood crew scouting a movie titled Argo. Under those disguises, they were able to flee the country.”
Chris Terrio wrote the screenplay for the proposed flick.
