Affleck's Fake Movie

Based on a true story, "Argo" is about a covert mission to rescue American's trapped in Iran following that country's 1970s revolution. The mission's premise: Stage the production of a fake big-budget Hollywood scifi movie that wished to film in Iran's "exotic" desert locales, and while there smuggle the would-be hostages out as part of the "production crew." Ben Affleck directs and stars.

Of special note for geek audiences: The non-film used designs from comics legend Jack Kirby as it's concept-art - Kirby will appear in the film, played by Michael Parks.



Amusingly, I've already been effectively called a racist once today in-part for not coming out against this movie because Affleck's character was Latino in real life. So... yeah, now I've mentioned that: Affleck's character was Latino in real life. I'm not sure what else I'm expected to say about that other than to note that I don't like Hollywood' insistence that white leads are needed to a open a movie