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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Reunite for Gritty Netflix Crime Drama

Hollywood’s greatest bromance is back on the big screen.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back together again, with the iconic duo set to reunite for a new thriller on Netflix set to debut next January. The gritty trailer for The Rip sees the two stars play a pair of Miami cops who become corrupted after finding a $20 million stack of cash stashed away in a derelict home. The longtime friends and collaborators, who last worked together on 2023’s Air, were inspired to cement their creative partnership and form a production company together in 2021 after co-writing The Last Duel and watching Peter Jackson’s fly-on-the-wall Beatles documentary Get Back. “I was like, what are we doing, man? Both of us, this is what we love to do more than anything,” Damon told Deadline last year. “The only thing better is doing it together, in any capacity, whether he’s directing or whether we’re acting together or whether we’re producing together, or whether we’re just facilitating for other filmmakers.” Both stars share production credits on The Rip, which is written and directed by Hollywood stalwart Joe Carnahan. “They’re distinctly talented filmmakers,” Carnahan said of his two “creative allies,” adding,” I’ve never had as easy an experience on a movie as I had on The Rip. They took exceptionally good care of me and backed my decisions every step of the way.”

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