News: Ben Affleck

Affleck’s next project, following his moustachioed turn in this week’s Smokin’ Aces, is going to be from behind the camera. As writer/director of Gone, Baby, Gone, he’ll be hoping to revive some of the Oscar-winning success he had as co-screenwriter (with best buddy Matt Damon)  of Good Will Hunting, and has cast his brother, Casey Affleck in the lead. Based on a novel by the same person who wrote the book on which the Oscar-winning Sean Penn flick Mystic River was based, the Boston-set detective thriller revolves around the kidnapping of a four-year-old girl, and also features the likes of Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, and Mark Wahlberg’s oft-forgotten brother Robert.