David McCloskey
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could be a Hollywood designer's idea of some place in the Middle East.
There's a bazaar rendered in one of these drawings that kind of looks like the Grand Bazaar, the famous covered bazaar in Tehran.
So, it makes sense why if you have this concept art, you have this script in hand.
Maybe Iran makes sense if you're trying to scout locations.
Now, the title, Lord of Light, they think it's too on the nose.
This is a country that's in the grip of religious revolution.
They might also be changing the title for IP concerns later down the road.
I'm just kind of guessing.
Maybe they're thinking if we change the title and somehow this gets out, Barry Geller won't sue us for having stolen his script.
And they go back and forth on some alternatives, and Chambers suggests Argo.
Now, Argo had been an office joke for a number of years.
It was actually a knock-knock joke that Chambers used when he was working with the OTS team, with Mendez's team.
And it went this way, Gordon.
It was knock-knock.
Who's that?
Argo.
Argo.
Argo who?
Argo yourself.
Bleep gun, Becky, please.