{"id":11721,"date":"2011-02-04T07:39:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T12:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=11721"},"modified":"2021-02-05T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T21:46:45","slug":"affleck-in-talks-to-direct-tehran-hostage-crisis-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/04\/affleck-in-talks-to-direct-tehran-hostage-crisis-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Affleck In Talks To Direct Tehran Hostage Crisis Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/BenAffleck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11722\" title=\"BenAffleck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/BenAffleck-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/BenAffleck-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/BenAffleck.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I have to say that I&#8217;m finding Ben Affleck&#8217;s burgeoning directorial career to be more interesting than his acting career of late. With just two movies &#8211; <strong>Gone Baby Gone<\/strong> and <strong>The Town<\/strong> &#8211; he&#8217;s shown strong potential behind the camera which has made any new project from him automatically worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n<p>Affleck is currently in negotiations to direct <strong>Argo<\/strong>, a film based on a <em>Wired<\/em> magazine magazine article on the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis titled \u201cHow the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran.\u201d The article detailed how United States and Canadian intelligence services concocted a plan to rescue six diplomats from Tehran, Iran after Iranian militants seized control of the American Embassy taking its staff hostage.<\/p>\n<p>Being old enough to have memories of the hostage crisis, the idea of a film detailing a little known aspect of the situation certainly has my attention. The fact that the CIA used a fake film production as cover for the operation, and used art from comic book great Jack Kirby as phony &#8220;production art,&#8221; is just icing on this cake.<\/p>\n<p>Via the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141027030311\/http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/blogs\/heat-vision\/ben-affleck-teaming-george-clooney-96480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">I have to say that I&#8217;m finding Ben Affleck&#8217;s burgeoning directorial career to be more interesting than his acting career of late. With just two movies &#8211; Gone Baby Gone and The Town &#8211; he&#8217;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/04\/affleck-in-talks-to-direct-tehran-hostage-crisis-drama\/\" title=\"Affleck In Talks To Direct Tehran Hostage Crisis Drama\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3472,345],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-argo","9":"tag-ben-affleck"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11721"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}