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Affirmative Action
Studio: Buena Vista
Director: Unknown
Cast: Will Smith
Plot: Set in New Orleans, a racist South Boston cop and an equally racist Military Police officer are assigned to track down an AWOL soldier who committed a crime.
Notes: Ben wrote the treatment for this film which will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
All Roads Lead To October
Studio: Unknown
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Plot: Based on a 1973 scandal in which New York Yankees team-mates Mike Kekick and Fritz Petersen "literally exchanged wives, kids, houses, furniture, dogs and cats."
Notes: Matt Damon reportedly bought the rights to Maury Allen's memoirs All Roads Lead To October in January, 2001 with plans of adapting the first chapter, which is about the scandal, into a film.
A People's History of the United States
Network: HBO
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Plot: [from amazon.com book review] Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency.
Notes: Ben will executive produce this televion mini-series. According to Variety, it will be shown in three parts with John Sayles writing the first two-hour installment.
Information current as of 08/05/02
Balling The Jack
Studio: Miramax Films
Director: Unknown
Cast: Casey Affleck
Plot: A thrill seeking paralegal in New York escapes his mundane life by gambling on baseball games. One high stakes dart game threatens his life, career and girlfriend.
Notes: Ben has been working on this screenplay since the release of Good Will Hunting.
Bombay California
Studio: Unknown
Director: Dev Benegal
Cast: Rani Mukherjee
Plot: A Bollywood/Hollywood romantic comedy which would focus on a man, a woman and a classic Indian-made car, the Ambassador.
Notes: Both Ben and Ethan Hawke are reportedly interested in the project.
Information current as of 09/23/03
Brokeback Mountain
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Matt Damon
Plot: Two male cowboys fall in love, but their lives prevent them from being together.
Notes: This was to be Van Sant's follow up to Good Will Hunting but went into limbo when he filmed Finding Forrester instead.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Plot: Two men possess vital information on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One of them is CARDINAL - America's highest agent in the Kremlin - and he's about to be terminated by the KGB. The other one is Jack Ryan, who can save CARDINAL and lead the world to the brink of peace...or war.
Notes: Paramount president Sherry Lansing recently confirmed that Red Rabbit will be the next Jack Ryan film, however there are still rumors that this adaptation will eventually reach the big screen.
Related Projects: Red Rabbit
Information current as of 06/14/02
Company Confidential
Studio: Unknown
Director: Matt Damon
Cast: Jennifer Lopez
Plot: Scott Murphy thinks he was "born ready" to take his place on the Campbell Industries team, but nothing could prepare him for business California style. Despite being hampered by a conscience and integrity, Murphy thrives in his new territory - inadvertently making some dangerous enemies. He meets Lisa LeDoux, the woman of his dreams, and begins to plan for a future away from Campbell Industries, but events have been set in motion that nothing can avert, and soon Murphy's life has shattered into terror and tragedy.
Notes: According to Peoplenews.com, Ben is in negotiations for the film rights to the novel Company Confidential and has approached Matt Damon about directing it.
Information current as of 01/06/03
Daredevil 2
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Cast: Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau
Plot: Unknown. There have been rumors that should Daredevil have a sequel it might follow the comic book's "Born Again" storyline in which Matt Murdock's secretary and lover Karen Page quits her job and breaks up with Matt to move to Los Angeles and become an actress, but instead ends up becoming a porn star and heroin addict. To get more heroin, she sells Matt's secret identity to the Kingpin, and when she returns to New York, Matt's life is in ruins because his secret has been revealed to the wrong people. According to IGN Film Force the character of Karen Page will definetly have a bigger role in a Daredevil sequel. However, director Mark Steven Johnson recently stated that the sequel might take on a diffrent storyline: "The other idea is to do Guardian Devil (Kevin "Clerks" Smith's run for Marvel, in which DD has his faith tested). I'd let Kevin write the screenplay, which I think would be a blast."
Notes: At the press conference for Daredevil it was revealed that a sequel is definetly in the works.
Information current as of 02/16/03
The Dreyfus Affair
Studio: Unknown
Director: Betty Thomas
Cast: Don Cheadle
Plot: A Major League shortstop finds himself falling in love with a second baseman.
Fletch Won
Studio: Miramax Films
Director: Kevin Smith
Cast: unknown
Plot: The tale of one of the first cases of reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher. Taken off a case when his subject ends up dead, Fletch continues his investigation regardless, which puts him in conflict with just about everyone, including the police, his boss, other reporters, etc. Along the way, he also hones the art of disguise that will later become his trademark.
Notes: According to Kevin Smith, Ben is on the short list to play the lead (along with Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Jimmy Fallon and Adam Sandler). It will begin filming in January, 2004
Information current as of 08/13/03
General Manager
Network: HBO
Director: Unknown
Cast: a minor league baseball team
Premise: A reality show that would allow viewers to track the progress of a minor league baseball team and then control its destiny via the Internet. On the Net, viewers will be able to keep track of the team's on-field performance and then vote each week on key matters, including the starting lineup and which players should be cut or traded.
Notes: The series is expected to debut in the summer of 2003, and Ben will executive produce through LivePlanet.
Information current as of 04/26/02
Glory Road
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: unknown
Cast: unknown
Plot: A drama centering on the story of college basketball coach Don Haskins, who led the first all-black lineup of players to the NCAA championship in 1966.
Notes: The film is slated to begin shooting in early 2004
Information current as of 10/30/03
Gone, Baby, Gone
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Ben Affleck (in talks)
Cast: Jennifer Lopez (in talks)
Plot: Private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, search for a kidnapped four-year-old.
Notes: Paramount has optioned this and another Dennis Lehane novel as a potential franchise for Ben. In addition to being tapped to star, Ben is also in negotiations to adapt the novel and to direct.
Related Projects: Prayers For Rain
Information current as of 05/03/03
Halfway House
Studio: Unknown
Director: Unknown
Cast: Matt Damon
Plot: The story of the patients and workers in a facility for the mentally impaired.
Notes: Ben and Matt have been working on this script since Good Will Hunting's release. If the project ever comes to fruition, Ben would play a counselor and Matt would play a patient.
Lay Down Easy
Studio: Unknown
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Plot: "Set in blue-collar Revere, Massachusetts, and centered around two brothers, one of whom races his dog at the Wonderland racetrack."
Notes: According to the April, 2002 issue of Details Magazine, Ben is writing this with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.
Information current as of 03/22/02
Like A Rock
Studio: Miramax Films
Director: Unknown
Cast: Matt Damon
Plot: Two best friends, who have difficulty with women, find solace in the world of cars
Notes: This is another post Good Will Hunting screenplay Ben and Matt have been working on.
Prayers For Rain
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Plot: Private investigator Patrick Kenzie is in the middle of a personal crisis - he's lost his passion for the profession, and is tired of people with their "predictable vices, their predictable needs and wants and dormant desires." Angie Gennaro, his occasional sweetheart, lifelong friend, and fellow investigator has quit the business. She's still deeply resentful about Patrick's handling of the Amanda McCready case, the focus of Gone, Baby, Gone. Without Angie, private investigating has lost its fizz. The suicide of a former client, Karen Nichols, gives Kenzie his investigative itch back. Her death consumes Kenzie and he teams up with his explosive, loving, gun-toting friend Bubba Rogowski and, after a boozy reunion, Angie Gennaro joins them.
Notes: This is one of two Dennis Lehane books optioned by Paramount for a potential franchise
Related Projects: Gone, Baby, Gone.
Information current as of 03/11/02
Red Rabbit
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Bridget Moynahan
Plot: Now that the Ulster Liberatio Army is no more, Jack Ryan expects to carry out his new job as an analyst at the CIA along with his history lectures but the debriefing of a high-level Soviet defector reveals a disturbing piece of information: the Soviets are planning to assassinate the Pope John Paul II. Ryan will then spend most of his time confirming and foiling the attack. The story takes place between Patriot Games and the Hunt for Red October.
Notes: The novel will released in August at which point Paramount will begin the process of adapting it for the big screen.
Related Projects: The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
Information current as of 06/14/02
Romantic Comedy
Studio: MGM
Director: Nigel Cole
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow
Plot: A spoof of several recent romantic comedies, and the genre in general, it tells the story of a man who schemes to win the love of a woman by doing what characters in various movies did to woo a girl.
Notes: Production on the film is to begin in November of 2001.
Information current as of 09/25/01
Seconds
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Jon Amiel (in talks)
Cast: Unknown
Plot: The story of a man who is given the chance at rebirth by a mysterious group called the Seconds Company. For a price, they can surgically alter you to resemble anyone on the planet, and insert you into that person's life. You can be anything: a movie star, sports star, politician, you name it. However, what happens if you start to regret your decision?
Notes: Ben has long been rumored to be interested in this project which was originally slated to begin filming in late 2000. If Jon Amiel does sign on we could see this film in theaters by 2004.
Information current as of 08/05/02
Sex Talk
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Plot: Centers on a sports reporter who finds popularity by applying sports terminology and strategy to solve the problems people have with their sex lives.
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Information current as of 06/18/03
Suspicion
Studio: Dimension Films
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow
Plot: A young woman from a wealthy San Francisco family, who gets married after being swept off her feet, soon begins to suspect that her new husband was just after her for the money, and he's now trying to kill her to get it.
Notes: Production is scheduled to begin sometime during the summer of 2002.
Information current as of 11/25/01
Take Me Out
Studio: Unknown
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Plot: Darren Lemming, a young baseball hero, is at the top of his game, professionally and personally, when he decides to call a press conference that results in a shocking admission to the waiting media. Take Me Out chronicles the fall-out as the ripples of his actions spread through the team, the media and across the nation.
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Information current as of 07/10/03
Truth, Justice and The American Way
Studio: Unknown
Director: Allen Coulter
Cast: Benicio Del Torro
Plot: A biopic of George Reeves, the original portrayer of Superman.
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Information current as of 07/22/03
Untitled Hugh Hefner Biopic
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Plot: A film about the life of Playboy creator Hugh Hefner.
Notes: In May of 2001 Hefner stated that he'd like Ben to play him in the biopic. Scott Silver has been hired to write the screenplay.
Information current as of 11/10/02
The Upgrade
Studio: Miramax Films
Director: Unknown (possibly the writer, Matt Burch)
Cast: Unknown
Plot: Two jewelry store security guards become unknowing pawns in the store owner's plot to rob his own shop for insurance money.
Notes: Ben will executive produce this film
The Winter Hill Gang
Studio: Unknown
Director: Mark Rocco
Cast: Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, George Clooney
Plot: The story of the legendary feud between Buddy McLean and the McLaughlin Brothers which led to a gangland bloodbath in Boston during the early-to mid-'60s.
Notes: Ben, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg and George Clooney are all rumored to be interested in this project.
