The Daily Show host Jon Stewart is set to take an 12 week hiatus from the show to film his directorial debut, Rosewater.
The film is an adaptation of the 2011 book Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival, for which Stewart also wrote the screenplay. Marketers everywhere are praising the decision to change the name for the film. 
Deadline, who broke the news, writes:
The book is Maziar Bahari’s harrowing ordeal of leaving London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential elections. With a pregnant fiance left behind, the BBC journalist expected to be away for a week. Instead, he spent the next 118 days in Iran’s most notorious prison being brutally interrogated by a man he knew only by one thing: he smelled of Rosewater. Bahari wrote the book with Aimee Molloy.
As Stewart is taking a 12 week break from The Daily Show, regular contributor John Oliver will take over hosting duties for an eight week stint this Summer, with what will presumably be four weeks of reruns. While Stewart has acted in numerous films over the years (Death to Smoochy anyone?), this marks his first writing and directing turn.
With filming just months away, we can assume casting and other related announcements will be arriving in the coming weeks and months.