Ben Affleck, Matt Damon's crime drama

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up for an upcoming film based on the crime novel, How An Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions. Affleck will be wielding the directorial baton in the Damon-starrer.

The film is based on Jeff Maysh's crime story, which was published on an American news website recently. Damon and Affleck will also co-produce the movie, while the script is being penned by the superhero flick Deadpool writer duo, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese. The story revolves around a man named Michael Hoover, who claimed to have won the $1 million grand prize after collecting monopoly pieces in McDonalds, and a camera crew was dispatched to his home in Rhode Island.

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