Jon Stewart's directorial debut about a reporter held and tortured by the Iranian government will bow in theaters in November.
Having already secured a ritzy gala premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Jon Stewart’s Rosewater now has an official release date.
Open Road Films announced Thursday afternoon that the movie Jon Stewart took the summer of 2013 off from The Daily Show to direct will begin its platform release on November 7, 2014. This curious date is clearly intended to be counterprogramming on both coasts in New York and Los Angeles, as it is also the weekend for wide releases like Christopher Nolan’s space epic Interstellar and Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Big Hero 6.
Rosewater adapts Maziar Bahari’s memoir entitled Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival, which chronicles his journey as a reporter who was arrested and held by the Iranian government for almost five months in 2009.
Bahari had arrived in Iran to cover the 2009 presidential election for BBC. The political event came under great scrutiny when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by a large margin. Bahari submitted camera footage of the proceeding riots in Iran protesting the election, and as a result, he was detained by the Revolutionary Guard who interrogated and tortured him for 118 days. He was only released when he promised to play a spy for the Iranian government.
The film stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Bahari.
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