Last time we checked in on Ben Affleck he was mulling over the decision between working opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the great Gatsby or continuing his directing career with Argo. If you’re reading this based off the headline then you know how this turned out.
Source: Filmofilia
Well, guess what, it looks that rumors were true and according to the latest reports Affleck is indeed attached to direct and star in the film as well!
As we said, Argo is based on a 2007 Wired magazine article about the 1979-80 Tehran hostage crisis, called How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran written by Joshuah Bearman.
Bearman described the whole thing this way: “The story is a CIA rescue mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis, when six American embassy staff escaped the compound and were on the lam in Tehran for months, until the CIA rescued them by creating a fake Hollywood production company and pretended to be in Iran location scouting for a big-budget sci-fi epic.
I can’t fault the guy. That premise sounds awesome and I’m already looking forward to seeing this project continue to be further developed. George Clooney is one of the producers on the project and I’m curious to see if he will decide to get involved on the acting side as well. I am a little disappointed that we won’t get to see him portray Tom Buchanan, the millionaire husband of Daisy Buchanan and nemesis of Jay Gatsby, alongside DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire but him not being in the film means we will eventually get both movies sooner than later.
