Jon Stewart To Direct Adaptation Of Canadian-Iranian Journalist's Memoir

Stewart will be taking time off this summer to direct his first movie, Rosewater, an adaptation he penned of the 2011 book Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival by Bahari and Aimee Molloy. Bahari, a Newsweek staffer who spent 118 days in an Iranian prison in 2009, had been accused of plotting to overthrow the government following the airing of a sketch he participated in with the Daily Show's correspondent Jason Jones, who pretended to be a spy.

Here's a clip of Bahari's appearance on the Daily Show after his release:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/jon-stewart-to-direct-serious-film-will-take-hiatus-from-daily-show/

The movie is set to start filming in June.