If you don’t want to miss one of the best film this year, head over to theaters this Friday, October 12, and make sure to watch “Argo.” Based on real events, it chronicles the life-or-death covert operation, between the CIA and the Canadian government, to rescue six Americans during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979. Born from a Wired Magazine article written by Joshuah Bearman in 2007 and a selection from former CIA agent Antonio (Tony) Mendez’ book, The Master of Disguise, “Argo” is the film within a film that will keep you at the edge of your seat.

Ben Affleck directs the film from a screenplay by Chris Terrio, which he calls “pretty incredible.” He adds, “what struck me almost right away is that you have this thriller and is an equal measure, this comic Hollywood satire [and] this sort of intricate real life CIA spy story.”

Terrio said the tone of the film was very important and talked about a lot, “how do you tell a story that is geopolitical, where the stakes are very high, and where you, obviously, have lives hanging in a balance, but at the same time be able to keep the irony and absurd nature of the dialog without compromising either tone?” According to producer Grant Heslov, the tone of the film was set by Bearman’s article, where even the original images attached to it resembled a film storyboard.

“Argo” is the kind of movie an actor scrambles to be a part of and want to be involved in. “The easiest work that an actor has ever done is on extremely well written material, the hardest work that we have ever had to do is on poorly written material,” Bryan Cranston said referring to the brilliant script. Among the stars joining Affleck and Cranston are Alan Arkin and John Goodman, but the main cast also includes Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler and Chris Messina.

Althought “Argo” is a dramatic thriller, it has it’s moments of comedy. Cue Arkin and Goodman, who make a great team, bringing in that comedic timing they’re so good at. “I’ve met people like him [his character, Lester Siegel]. What makes it stand out and seems like a comedy is the fact that is in such contrast to the other two arenas in the script. In the case of people in Washington [DC], they had their careers at stake and the reputation of the country, and in Iran, they had lives at stake,” said Arkin.

The incredibly unbelievable way this whole story sounds, something taken out of Hollywood, where audiences will doubt that it could ever happen in real life, is exactly what drew Affleck to it. “This is a real story, about a real guy, who worked in a real world, where real lives were at stake,” he added.

ARGO In theaters on October 12