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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will team up up with Paramount to bring about the 1840s - Boston - set clandestine police dramaThe shadow . The dyad ’s Pearl Street Films shingle , headed up by president Jennifer Todd , produced last year ’s Best Picture nomineeManchester By the Seaas well as Affleck ’s own loge office bombLive By Night .
ground on theBoston Globe Magazinearticle " Into the Shadows " by Matthew Pearl , The Shadowswill tell the fib of America ’s first undercover constabulary investigator , who are dispatched to the grievous street of 1840s Boston to cover with a crime waving that coincides with an influx of immigrant to the city . Though the real - animation early detective helped inspire police work through their development of surreptitious technique , they also found themselves setting more unfortunate precedents by from time to time confuse ethical demarcation .
THRreports thatThe Shadowsis being set up at Paramount , with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on - board as producers through their Pearl Street Films banner . Chris Bremner is writing the book found on his own pitch .
Rising screenwriter Bremner saw hisBlackfriarsscript stumble the Black List in 2015 , and has had the project picked up by Lakeshore Entertainment withThe Age of Adalinedirector Lee Toland Krieger at the helm . Bremner is also working onBad Boys 3for Sony ( though the film wasrecently bump from Sony ’s release slate ) , and is co - writingHoudiniwith Noah Oppenheim for film director Dan Trachtenberg .
 With its Boston milieu and hard - boiled subject topic , The Shadowssounds like something Damon and Affleck might need to pass over into as performing artist as well as producers . If nothing else , the moving picture would give the doer a chance to develop raw 1840s variations on the Boston accents they so famously laid on for their Oscar - gain ground 1997 breakthroughGood Will Hunting . Damon has already done the Boston cop thing , playing Jack Nicholson ’s mole within the law section in Martin Scorsese ’s Best Picture winnerThe Departed . Affleck played the other side of the criminal fence for the Boston - set bull - and - robber movieThe Town , which he also maneuver ( much more efficaciously than he directedLive By Night , in which he bring a Boston - kick upstairs gangster on a convolute missionary post of revenge in Depression - era Florida ) .
Affleck ’s next directorial job is expected to be anadaptation of Agatha Christie’sWitness for the Prosecutionbeing determine up at twentieth Century Fox . Acting - wise , Affleck will next appear as Batman inJustice League , and is still set to wager the Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves’The Batman(a film Affleck wasoriginally fructify to direct ) . Damon stars in a pair of moving-picture show come out this awards season : George Clooney ’s offense mysterySuburbiconand Alexander Payne ’s sci - fi satireDownsizing .
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The Shadowscurrently does not have a release engagement . We ’ll keep you updated on the previous info .
Source : THR
