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TEHRAN -- Former director of the Cinema Organization of Iran, Javad Shamaqdari is making preproduction arrangements for producing a docudrama entitled “The Second Revolution”, which will chronicle the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
Writing the screenplay for the series has recently been completed, Shamaqdari told the Persian service of the Mehr News Agency on Tuesday.
“Since the subject of the series is a matter of great political sensitivity, I am constantly reading through the script,” he added.
He said that he has read about 90 books on the subject to complete the screenplay. The memoires of Iranian opposition groups, Iranian officials, some relevant U.S. officials and diplomats, and some members of the former royals of Iran are the main sources for docudrama.
Shamaqdari is the director of “The Sand Storm” (1996), which is about “Operation Eagle Claw” in which a number of American servicemen tried to rescue their compatriots who were taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran in November 1979.
In 2012, when Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage drama “Argo” was released in North America, some Iranian producers announced plans to make movies in response to the film, which was officially viewed in Iran as an “anti-Iranian”.
In January 2013, Iran’s Art Bureau announced its plan to make “The General Staff” about this issue. In September 2013, Iranian producer Jamal Sadatian also said that he was gathering information for making a film on this subject. And in July 2014, producer Iraj Taqipur announced that he was seeking investors to make “Meeting at Sheremetyevo”.
However, none of these plans have been implemented yet.