Hollywood’s favorite BFFs are working together on yet another project. According to a report from Variety, Ben Affleck will soon direct his buddy Matt Damon in a new film for Netflix, a kidnapping thriller called Animals. This is a follow-up to Air, the Nike drama the pair did together for Amazon Prime in 2023. Unlike with Air, it appears that Affleck will only direct and not star in the film and neither Affleck or Damon will write it. Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray will pen the script. Aside from this new film being a crime thriller, we don’t know much else about it yet.
Back in the ’90s, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, childhood friends from Cambridge, Massachusetts, became synonymous with each other—especially when the pair wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting together in 1997. That collaboration won the pair some Academy Awards and made the young actors into superstars overnight. After that, the duo reunited for Kevin Smith’s Biblical satire Dogma. But perhaps being tired of always being associated together by the media, the two really didn’t work together again for decades, aside from random cameos in Kevin Smith movies here and there.
In recent years, however, Affleck and Damon started working together again. In 2021, they co-wrote the screenplay for historical drama The Last Duel together, which Ridley Scott directed them both in. Just one year after that, Ben Affleck directed Matt Damon in Air, which came out in 2023. They might have taken a big break from working doing projects together, but they seem more committed to working as a duo now than ever before. We have no idea when Animals will start shooting, but don’t expect to see it before 2025.
