This Affleck increases monster star Scoot McNairy to hostage terror Argo

2011-08-05 18:27:49 Author: Sean O’Connell Actor Scoot McNairy, who led an expedition through creature-savaged Mexico in Gareth Edwards’ indie thriller Monsters , is the latest thesp to join Ben Affleck’s still-in-development political satire Argo . Variety, which breaks the story, doesn’t clarify what role McNairy would play, though Affleck, directing his third feature, already has cast himself, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman and Alan Arkin for his ensemble. Screenwriter Chris Terrio is adapting Argo from a 2007 Wired magazine article by Joshuah Bearman (this one, in fact) that explained how, in 1979, the CIA posed as Hollywood executives filming a sci-fi alien picture…