Reading Lolita in Tehran has been optioned for film
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi has been optioned for film by Industry Entertainment, which is looking to Academy Award nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo to star:
Aleksandra Crapanzano will now adapt the screenplay centering on the life of Nafisi, who broke all the rules when she quit her job as a professor of literature at a Tehran university and invited several of her female students to attend study sessions at her house. There, the group would often read photocopied pages of illegal Western books, including works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jane Austen, and then discuss the political and social implications the works had on their own lives while living under the rule of the Ayatollah.
