New Poster and Trailer for John Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’

Tomorrow, The Daily Show’s John Stewart’s directorial debut Rosewater makes its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.  To hype the upcoming premiere and November 7th release of the film, a new poster and trailer has been unveiled.  The film is about a journalist, played by Gael Garcia Bernal, who goes to Iran to cover the elections but is then arrested and tortured as he is accused of being a spy.  It’s my first look at the drama but for a movie about this type of subject the trailer comes off as pretty positive and hopeful.  In fact, based on early reviews Rosewater is a film about the power of perseverance and this trailer certainly shows it.

If you’re a John Stewart fan you’re probably going to want to check this out.  I’m hoping it ends up being pretty good as I consider John Stewert one of the good guys and love the way he uses positivity to help spread heavier messages to a wide audience.  Check out the trailer below and let us know what you think of it.

Rosewater is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir “Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival,” written by Maziar Bahari. The film marks the directorial debut of “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, and stars Gael García Bernal.

Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Mousavi’s supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad’s victory declaration hours before the polls closed, Bahari endured personal risk by sending footage of the street riots to the BBC. Bahari was arrested by police, led by a man identifying himself only as “Rosewater,” who tortured and interrogated him over the next 118 days.

With Bahari’s wife leading an international campaign to have her husband freed, and Western media outlets keeping the story alive, Iranian authorities released Bahari on $300,000 bail and the promise he would act as a spy for the government.