(L to R) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon at the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards, airing live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Preview:
- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are aboard a new crime thriller.
- Joe Carnahan will direct the movie, titled ‘RIP’.
- The project is seeking a distributor.
It’s not quite such an event these days for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to work together; after all, their most recent shared effort, ‘Air’ (starring Damon, which Affleck directed and co-starred in), was only released last year.
And in that time their company, Artists Equity, has produced the likes of documentary ‘The Greatest Love Story Never Told’ for Amazon MGM and historical drama ‘Small Things Like These’, which opened this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
They had been considering working together again –– on kidnap thriller ‘Animals’, which we reported on here –– but schedules couldn’t be worked out following shooting changes for Affleck on the ‘Accountant’ sequel.
Now, however, they have found their next joint gig, a crime thriller called ‘RIP’.
What’s the story of ‘RIP’?
(L to R) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on HBO’s ‘Project Greenlight.’
According to Deadline, the plot details beyond that basic genre description, are being kept quiet.
The title doesn’t exactly promise sunshine and kittens, and we do know that the movie’s concept was dreamt up by director Joe Carnahan along with Mike McGrale, and Carnahan is looking to start calling the shots in the fall.
Affleck and Damon’s Artists Equity will produce. Carnahan, of course, has a solid history with crime films, having made the likes of ‘Narc’ and ‘Smokin’ Aces’ (in which Affleck had a role).
‘RIP’ is currently without a distributor, but given the star power and director, we’d expect this one to be snapped up quickly. Netflix may pivot from working on ‘Animals’, or Amazon MGM may well step up.
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What’s next for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon?
Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff in ‘The Accountant.’ Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
As mentioned earlier, Affleck has reprised the character of Christian Wolff for a sequel to Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 action thriller ‘The Accountant’, which is in post-production now.
Damon has Apple’s ‘The Instigators’ on the way (which he’s starring in, and producing alongside Affleck), and that will land on Apple TV+ on August 9th, with Doug Liman in the director’s chair.
He’s also a producer (without Artists Equity this time) on Netflix comedy series ‘Green Beret’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse’.
Beyond those upcoming acting/producing gigs, the pair’s company is also backing projects such as an updated ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ and sports drama ‘Unstoppable’.
(L to R) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon win Best Original Screenplay for ‘Good Will Hunting’ during the 70th Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium. Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images.
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