Ben Affleck to Reunite With Pal Matt Damon in Thriller Movie 'RIP'

Besties and predominant collaborators Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reuniting connected surface for a caller Netflix task titled RIP.

The streaming level shared the quality to societal media connected Tuesday, posting a pic of the longtime pals sitting unneurotic astatine an awards show.

"Best friends everlastingly Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to prima successful RIP. A caller thriller coming to Netflix from writer and manager Joe Carnahan," the station revealed.

Not overmuch is known astir the forthcoming thriller, arsenic the logline is presently being kept nether wraps.

However, the movie is produced by Artists Equity, the artist-led accumulation workplace established and launched by Affleck and Damon backmost successful 2022.

Additionally, manager Joe Carnahan is helming the project. Carnahan is champion known for high-octane, action-packed thrillers and transgression capers, including Copshop, Boss Level, The Grey, The A-Team, Smokin' Aces and Narc.

Damon and Affleck precocious starred other each different successful 2023's Air -- which told the communicative of Nike's attempts to tribunal Michael Jordan to endorse their sneakers successful the '90s. This besides marked the archetypal clip Affleck directed Damon successful a project.

Before that, the brace shared the surface unneurotic successful a fistful of different projects, astir notably, 2021's The Last Duel, 1999's Dogma and 1997's Good Will Hunting -- which the brace co-wrote and some won Oscars for.

Earlier this year, Damon reunited with Affleck for a cameo successful a Dunkin' Super Bowl commercialized that Affleck starred in -- other woman Jennifer Lopez -- which besides featured cameos from Tom Brady, Jack Harlow and others. Although, it was Damon's quality and deadpan drama that truly stole the spotlight.

Additionally, the brace person 2 projects connected the skyline connected which they volition beryllium collaborating -- though not sharing the screen. Damon stars other Affleck's brother, Casey Affleck, successful The Instigators, which Affleck is producing and hits theaters connected August 2. Additionally, Damon is acceptable to prima successful Animals, a governmental thriller play Affleck is helming.

ET spoke with the 2 stars astatine the premiere of The Last Duel successful October 2021, and they brace opened astir their long-lasting relationship and their moving relationship.

 "Over those 25 years, Matt and I person been friends and worked unneurotic truthful it doesn't consciousness like, 'Oh, I haven't seen this feline successful 25 years,'" Affleck explained. "But it is nice! It's chill to beryllium doing different movie with him." 

Of doing different movie with his friend, Affleck added, "We loved it, and we decidedly privation to bash more." 

Damon joked that helium couldn’t judge that they were inactive astatine it 25 years later, sharing, "If you told maine 25 years agone [that we'd beryllium present tonight], I would beryllium like, 'We made it? We are inactive working? OK good!'"