The pic is budgeted at a lean $10 million and is based on Maziar Bahari’s memoir titled Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Capacity, and Survival that will tell the story of a journalist (Bernal) assigned to cover the Iranian Presidential elections who ends up in captivity for 118 days.
Jon Stewart co-wrote the adapted script with the memior's co-author Aimee Molloy from which he makes his film directing debut.
Scott Rudin Stewart and Gigi Pritzker are producing the film.
Time is tight as Stewart is currently on a 12-week hiatus from hosting The Daily Show in order to work on the film.
Correspondent John Oliver will take over hosting duties for 8 weeks of that time
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