Pajiba’s scooper, The Hollywood Cog, is reporting that America’s most trusted news source, Jon Stewart, has optioned the life rights of Iranian/Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari for a feature film.
Last year, Bahari was arrested during the Iranian election protests and jailed for 118 days. While detained, he was interrogated, often while blindfolded and facing away from interrogators, and forced to confess to a number of crimes including helping promote a “color revolution,” covering “illegal demonstrations and gatherings” and acknowledged that Western journalists were acting as spies which was “confirmed” by an interview Bahari did with Jason Jones of “The Daily Show” where he was dressed up as a spy for a joke. After being released on bail in November of last year, Bahari, who is still facing 15 various charges in the country, says it is not safe for him to return until the Islamic government is defeated.
The whole story is going to be detailed in a forthcoming book which Stewart hopes to turn into a movie via his Busboy Productions shingle. It’s still very early stages as the project seeks a writer and director, but Stewart and “The Daily Show”‘s Rich Korson will be producing.
Take a look at the clip below when Bahari guested on The Daily Show.