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EXCLUSIVE: Here is a package that will certainly heat up the summer market. Deadline is hearing that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are attached to star in the thriller RIP with Joe Carnahan writing and directing. Affleck and Damon’s company Artists Equity are producing with a plan to shoot this fall.
Reps for Artists Equity could not be reached for comment.
Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it being described as a crime thriller. The project is expected to find a distributor soon as interest has been drawn from both theatrical and streaming buyers.
Since launching in November 2022, Artists Equity, founded by Damon and Affleck have been very busy releasing their first film Air in spring 2023 to glowing reviews and a solid box-office performance. Since then, the studio has produced the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told for Amazon MGM Studios, and Small Things Like These, which opened this year’s Berlin Film Festival and won the Silver Bear for supporting actress Emily Watson.
As for RIP, the package came together pretty quickly in recent weeks as Affleck and Damon were looking for a new project under the company banner as Affleck was finishing up production on his sequel to The Accountant. The two tried to do another crime thriller at the top of the year, Animals, but scheduling with The Accountant 2 couldn’t be worked out and that was put on pause. No stranger to the crime thriller, Carnahan has made a name for himself over the years with thrillers like Narc and Smokin Aces (which Affleck also appeared in), and audiences can expect similar fireworks on this project given the talent already invovled.
Affleck and Damon are repped by WME. Carnahan is repped by CAA.
