Sartaj Singh
Two childhood friends and A-listers will head to the Garden State together later this year! Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s latest collaboration ‘RIP’ will start filming in New Jersey on October 21 and will conclude on December 11, 2024. The feature film is produced by the actors’ artist-led studio, Artists Equity, for Netflix. Joe Carnahan is directing with a screenplay he wrote based on a story by Michael McGrale.
The plot revolves around the officers of Miami’s Tactical Narcotics Team, who have become restless after the murder of a captain has gone unsolved for six weeks thanks to bureaucratic hang-ups. While they wait for justice to be served, they look to blow off steam and possibly walk away with something for themselves by following a tip on a potential cartel stash. What they find is more than they bargained for.
Damon and Affleck began their creative collaboration in the 1990s with ‘Good Will Hunting,’ which won them the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. They also starred alongside one another in the ensemble comedy ‘Dogma.’ The two stars founded Artists Equity in 2022, releasing the critically acclaimed ‘Air’ by the very next year. The sports drama saw Damon and Affleck in the lead together as Sonny Vaccaro and Phil Knight, respectively. They were armor-clad co-stars in Ridley Scott’s 2021 historical epic drama ‘The Last Duel.’ The studio has since produced notable works like the Cillian Murphy-led historical drama ‘Small Things Like These’ and Amazon MGM Studio’s ‘The Greatest Love Story Never Told.’
Damon stepped into the role of Leslie Groves in the Academy Award-winning ‘Oppenheimer.’ He also made a humorous guest appearance in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ and put on a Southern accent to headline ‘Stillwater.’ The star and Casey Affleck – Affleck’s younger brother – are also part of the cast of Apple TV+’s ‘The Instigators.’ Furthermore, Damon will star in Affleck’s upcoming directorial film ‘Animals,’ a thriller about a mayoral candidate and his wife inadvertently bringing their dark secrets to light in order to pay their son’s ransom.
Affleck’s latest appearance was in Prime Video’s ‘This Is Me… Now’ alongside Jennifer Lopez. He took on the role of the caped crusader once again for ‘The Flash’ and led the conspiracy thriller ‘Hypnotic’ as Danny Rourke. There is much excitement about the upcoming sequel to his hit 2016 film ‘The Accountant,’ with Jon Bernthal and J.K. Simmons starring alongside him.
Carnahan is a California-born filmmaker known for directing ‘The A-Team’ and ‘Smokin’ Aces,’ an ensemble crime action comedy starring Affleck, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, and Jason Bateman. His credits include ‘Copshop,’ ‘Battle Ready,’ Hulu’s ‘Boss Level,’ NBC’s ‘State of Affairs,’ and ‘The Blacklist.’ The filmmaker most recently completed work on ‘Not Without Hope,’ based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Jere Longman and Nick Schuyler, about four friends surviving after their boat capsizes in the Gulf of Mexico.
New Jersey previously hosted the filming of Damon’s ‘Oppenheimer’ and Affleck’s ‘Chasing Amy.’
