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Ben Affleck Takes on The Town

September 16, 2008

Ben Affleck will rewrite, direct and star in The Town, a Warner Bros. adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel "The Prince of Thieves," reports Variety. Graham King is producing through his GK Films.

Affleck would play a career thief who becomes smitten by the manager of a bank.

The project — which most recently had director Adrian Lyne attached — would be based in Charlestown, Mass., a gritty blue-collar Boston suburb similar to the one that Affleck captured in his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone.

Affleck is doing a rewrite on the most recent draft by Peter Craig and Hogan.

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COMMENTS (27)

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September 16, 2008

I grew up in Charlestown. It had quite a share of racists.

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Scribe

September 16, 2008

Affleck has proven he's got a talent for directing, this should be quite interesting.

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Will Hunting

September 16, 2008

Ben finally found something he can do well and not muck up. Write and direct. Let's hope he stays along this path.

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Paul Gibbs

September 16, 2008

At this point, I'd be excited for anything Affleck was writing and directing.

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Sach-Man

September 16, 2008

AFFLECK WAS THE BOMB IS PHANTOMS YO!!!!

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Sach-Man

September 16, 2008

Had to represent like that I`ve always thought that Affleck was the most underated actor of his generation, lets hope he delivers another ace coz he does deserve it

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Stormseye

September 16, 2008

If I wanted to be harsh, I could say that Affleck's acting career is in such a lame state that he needs to be the director to get himself a role; but I'm way too polite to mention such a thing.

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Ultimate Monkey

September 16, 2008

Anyone who says Affleck can't act has OBVIOUSLY not seen "Hollywoodland". Which, by the way, he won the Volpi Cup at the Venice film festival for best actor.

This movie sounds pretty cool. I hope Affleck does well with it.

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Crop Duster

September 16, 2008

Sounds a lot like Hudson Hawk to me. Good Hawk... Nice Hawk… BAD HAWK!!

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Holden McNeil

September 16, 2008

Hollywoodland rocked asses!

And, Affleck was, indeed, the bomb in Phantoms. Yo.

Snoogins.