Playing for Himself

Ben Affleck has cast his favorite leading man for his next project: himself.

The actor-turned-director/actor will once again direct himself in Argo, a political thriller about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The last time he did this was for last year’s The Town.

Affleck will star as a CIA agent who hatched farfetched plot about a Hollywood production in order to extract a group of Americans from Iran in the late-’70s.

Alan Arkin and John Goodman (who will soon be seen on DirecTV’s Damages) are set to join the cast as well.

Photo: MovieBuzzers.com.