Jon Stewart announced that he would direct his first movie — called Rosewater, from a screenplay that he wrote — and take a 12 week leave from The Daily Show, the New York Times reports.
The movie is an adaptation of the 2011 book Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy.
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