With the New Year on the horizon there is little movie news to report of, but it is one of the few annual times when the big studios decide to bombard us with preview pictures from their future films. Warners has shoved a deluge of new pictures online, with Ben Affleck's Argo being one of particular interest.
Affleck rejected the chance to make the Man Of Steel, Superman's newest film which is to be directed by Zak Snyder and released in 2013, to make this film. The premise of Argo is an intriguing ripped-from-real-life tale of six American hostages and the audacious plan to evacuate them safely from Iran. Surely a premise that would have suited Superman?
Argo has been adapted from Joshuah Berman's article about the incident by writer Chirs Terrio and will follow the CIA's "exfiltation" specialist Tony Mendez, played by Affleck in November 1974 as he's informed of the situation. You see, militants have stormed the US embassy and taken 52 Americans hostage. Six have escaped and are finding refuge with the Canadian ambassador, but they need to leave the country as soon as is humanly possible.
Mendez decides to cook up an idea to have them listed as members of a location scouting team for a sci-fi movie. Which will require the US government to create a fictional production. Interesting stuff indeed.
Affleck has shown a knack of building up a reliable and solid cast with his previous films The Town and 2007's Gone Baby Gone. For Argo Affleck will be joined by Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Kerry Bishe, Kyle Chandler, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Victor Garber, Zeljko Ivanek, Richard Kind, Scoot McNairy, Chris Messian and Michael Parks joining the Oscar winning actor.
Argo will hit cinemas on September 14th 2012 and promises to be one to watch out for.
