True story. Exactly nine days ago, my friend Trent sent me a link to this story from Wired magazine, and said he wished he was a bigwig Hollywood producer “cuz this would make a great movie”:
How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran
Then, last night, the lead story in Variety began like so:
George Clooney and his Smoke House partner Grant Heslov will co-write a dramedy for Warner Bros. Pictures detailing how the CIA, with help from Hollywood, used a fake movie project to smuggle a handful of Americans out of Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis.
Warners has snapped up the film rights to Joshuah Berman’s Wired magazine article on the real-life intelligence tale and set it up with Smoke House to produce.
As with any Smoke House project, “Escape From Tehran” is a potential directing and starring vehicle for Clooney. . . .
Better luck next time, Trent!
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