Remember a few years ago when Jon Stewart took a few months off of The Daily Show? John Oliver filled in and did such a good job that he got his own fantastic show on HBO, Last Week Tonight. Anyway, Stewart took time off to direct a movie, Rosewater, and here’s the first trailer. It looks pretty damn good.
And here’s the plot synopsis, courtesty of IMDb:
This film follows the Tehran-born [Maziar] Bahari, a 42-year-old broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship living in London. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Moussavi, who was the prime challenger to controversial incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Moussavi’s supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad’s victory declaration hours before the polls closed on election day, Bahari endured great personal risk by submitting camera footage of the unfolding street riots to the BBC. Bahari was soon arrested by Revolutionary Guard police, led by a man identifying himself only as “Rosewater,” who proceeded to torture and interrogate the journalist over the next 118 days.
Rosewater is based on Bahari’s memoir And Then They Came for Me. Apparently Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones will appear as himself too, which sounds awesome. The film comes out November 14.
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