Ben Affleck’s “Argo” is still in theaters but it’s already getting a remake – in Iran.
Tehran’s Art Bureau announced today that they will fund a movie about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Entitled “The General Staff,” the film “which will be a big production, should be an appropriate response to the ahistoric film ‘Argo,’” Ataollah Salmanian, the director of the film, told Mehr News, the official Iranian agency.
He insisted his movie would depict “the historical event, unlike the American version, which lacks a proper view of the story.”
“Argo,” which won the Golden Globe for “Best Dramatic Film” last night, has come under fire for bending the truth, but Iranian authorities are more concerned about how the film depicts their nation. “The Iranophobic American movie attempts to describe Iranians overemotional, irrational, insane and diabolical,” state-run broadcaster Press TV explained in a recent article.