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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix seems to have landed an enormous fish earlier than everybody bolts for the Fourth of July vacation. Deadline is listening to that the streamer has landed rights to the crime thriller RIP starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, with Joe Carnahan directing. Deadline first reported the information that the package deal had hit the market a pair weeks again, and sources indicated it was solely a matter of time earlier than somebody scooped it up. Carnahan additionally penned the script, with Damon and Affleck’s Artists Fairness producing.
Plot particulars are being saved underneath wraps apart from RIP being described as against the law thriller.
After launching Artists Fairness in November 2022, Damon and Affleck launched the corporate’s first movie, Air, in spring 2023 to robust critiques and a strong field workplace efficiency. Since then, it has produced the documentary The Biggest Love Story By no means Informed for Amazon MGM Studios and Small Issues Like These, which opened this 12 months’s Berlin Movie Pageant and gained the Silver Bear for supporting actress Emily Watson. In addition they have Apple’s The Instigators starring Damon bowing in August and lately completed manufacturing on the Amazon MGM Studios pic Unstoppable.
As for RIP, the package deal got here collectively fairly shortly in latest weeks. Affleck and Damon had been searching for a brand new mission underneath the banner as Affleck was ending manufacturing on his sequel to The Accountant. Mockingly, the 2 tried to do one other crime thriller, Animals, on the prime of the 12 months at Netflix, however scheduling with The Accountant 2 couldn’t be labored out and that was placed on pause.
Deadline has since heard that Damon was really first to learn the RIP script and was blown away, and shortly bought it into the arms of Affleck. As soon as each Oscar winners had been on board, the package deal hit the market.
No stranger to crime thrillers, Carnahan has made a reputation for himself with such movies as Narc and Smokin’ Aces (which Affleck additionally appeared in), and audiences can anticipate related fireworks on this mission given the expertise concerned.
Affleck and Damon are repped by WME. Carnahan is repped by CAA.