Film Preview: Argo

Ben Affleck returns to direct and star in Argo, it is the third film he has directed after Gone Baby Gone and the excellent The Town. George Clooney and Grant Heslov are both producers for the film that is based on the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and 1980.

We follow the story of Iranian hostage crisis in the late 70's where the governments of American and Canada joined forces to rescue 6 foreign service members who had been taken hostage. The governments tried to convince the Iranians that they were a film crew working on a film called Argo rather than important government officials.

Argo is released in the UK on Friday 12th October 2012 and the trailer is embedded below: