Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's upcoming thriller RIP is heading to Netflix.
It was recently announced that the long-time friends and collaborators are teaming once again to star in and produce the new film through their company Artists Equity, with Narc and The Blacklist's Joe Carnahan onboard to write the script and direct.
Netflix has now confirmed that RIP will premiere on the streaming service, though plot details and a release date remain under wraps.
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Ben and Matt – who each won an Oscar for their Good Will Hunting screenplay back in 1998 – first launched Artists Equity in 2022, with an aim to provide more equitable profits for their cast and crew.
The production company released its debut movie Air last year, which follows the true story of shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro and how he helped revolutionise the Nike brand by striking a profit-sharing deal with Michael Jordan.
Discussing how the film happens to mirror the aim of Artists Equity during an exclusive interview with Digital Spy, Matt admitted: "We didn't intend that to be the case."
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"What we were really looking for, for our first movie, was something that was really performance-driven. Those are the movies we loved when we grew up that were really about the writing and the acting," he continued.
"We wanted something that was a story that was relatively contained, but really interesting, that we could just get the best possible actors [for] and tell a very simple story and tell it really well. It just so happened that it was a story about profit sharing which we're trying to do at the company. That was unintentional."
There is currently no release date for RIP.
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