Jack Kirby, the famed comics creator, illustrated the film's visual world. In the late 1970s, a comic and science fiction fanatic by the name of Barry Ira Geller adapted Lord of Light into a screenplay, then recruited the country's best creative talent to take it from page to celluloid. Dick's most hallucinatory narratives, anticipated many of cyberpunk's thematic concerns. Winner of the 1968 Hugo Award, Lord of Light was inspired by Buddhist and Hindu texts and chronicles the lives of people who who have mastered mind-uploading, genetic engineering and bodily transmigration. The movie obscures its real-life origins, but it started with one of the 1960s most cutting-edge novels, Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light.
One core prop: a convincing, ready-to-shoot screenplay. To infiltrate the country and facilitate the diplomats' return, CIA technician Tony Mendez concocts an incredible cover story: they're part of a film crew, scouting out locations in the Islamic republic for an epic science fiction movie.
diplomats from Tehran, Iran, during the 1979 hostage crisis. But one core prop is hard to find at short-notice: a convincing, ready-to-shoot screenplay.Īrgo, a thriller directed by and starring Ben Affleck, dramatizes the rescue of six U.S. To facilitate the return of six US diplomats trapped in Iran, during the 1979 hostage crisis, CIA technician Tony Mendez concocts an incredible cover story: they're part of a film crew, scouting out locations in the Islamic republic for an epic science fiction movie.
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