Did you know Jack Kirby had an inadvertant hand in helping the C.I.A. rescue several American hostages held in Iran? You see, back in the late 1970s, Kirby had done a series of concept sketches for a proposed adaptation of Zelaney’s “Lord of Light” . The film never got off the ground, but it became a useful cover story when a certain agent was looking for a way to get into Iran and rescue a group of Americans who had been forced to go underground following the revolution. You can read the whole fascinating story here.
April 27th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
That was absolutely fascinating to read. I was only born in 1983 so I didn’t know a whole lot of anything about that hostage situation other than it happened. I would absolutely watch a movie based on that story.