Ben Affleck shocked the world by going from J. Lo’s dorky boyfriend with baby teeth to respected director with Gone Baby Gone and The Town in the space of a few years. And for his next project, according to Vulture, he’s going all Blue Valentine method on us. You see what a few good reviews will do to you? His next film, Argo, is about people hiding out in a safehouse during the Iranian revolution. Naturally, he plans to make his actors actually live in a safehouse together.
Vulture has learned that Affleck intends to have the ensemble cast actually live together in a single “safe-house” for half a month prior to the start of production, to better re-create the claustrophobic and tense conditions of the six American diplomats unlucky enough to be inside the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the Islamic revolution in November 1979.
The film is based on this 2007 Wired article, “How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran”,
about the true story of how a CIA agent helped six diplomats who’d managed to escape capture and hide out during the revolution flee the country by smuggling them out of the country passed off as a Canadian film crew. The fake film was called “Argo.” Prior to that, the diplomats spent 84 days in a house together. The article describes the experience thusly:



