Affleck, Damon, Carnahan, and Netflix plan to let ‘er ‘RIP’
Massachusetts’s favorite sons, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, have a new wicked pissah of a movie in store for fans. The Oscar-winning writing duo behind “Good Will Hunting” and a lifetime of friendship will co-star and co-produce the crime thriller RIP for Netflix. Joe Carnahan, known for high testosterone pictures like “Smokin’ Aces” and “The Grey,” will direct the film based on his own original screenplay.
Plot details beyond the title and “crime thriller” description are not yet known.
Though Damon and Affleck are paired up in our minds like donuts and coffee, they have not appeared together on screen as much as you may think. Beyond “Good Will Hunting” there was the Kevin Smith religious comedy “Dogma” in the late 1990s and then … not too much until recent days, with the Ridley Scott period piece “The Last Duel” and the duo’s footwear drama “Air,” which the two co-produced through their company Artists Equity. Along the way there were several cameos. (Smith dropped Damon into “Chasing Amy” and “Jersey Girl” with Affleck and they both appeared in “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” as variations on themselves – and they both were extras together years ago in “Field of Dreams.”) On television, however, they both were seen on “Project Greenlight,” the indie cinema reality competition that, in its way, foresaw their company Artists Equity.
In addition to “RIP,” Artists Equity has many other projects in the pipeline, including Affleck starring in “The Accountant 2,” Damon and Oscar-winner Casey Affleck starring in Doug Liman’s crime comedy “The Instigators” out this August, Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy and Emily Watson in Tim Mielant’s drama “Small Things Like These,” which debuted at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, and “Unstoppable,” a based-on-a-true-story sports drama about a one-legged wrestler directed by “Air” and “Argo” editor and Oscar winner William Goldenberg and co-starring Affleck’s current spouse Jennifer Lopez. I haven’t read a lot about their relationship in a while!
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