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Best buds Matt Damon, Ben Affleck team up once again for TV spy show

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up to make a new thriller series for TV. Argo actor Ben and his friend and Bourne Identity star Matt are developing the show Incorporated for the Syfy channel, according to the Hollywood Reporter. It is an espionage thriller set in a futuristic world where corporations have unlimited power, and is about one man’s attempt to beat the system.

We never cared about money - we wanted to be in the movie. That was our only thing. That was our big ask.

Matt Damon, speaking to the Boston Magazine in 2013 about when he and Affleck started pitching Good Will Hunting

The famous friends are developing the series under their Pearl Street Films banner and will serve as executive producers, with The Good Wife’s Ted Humphrey as director and another executive producer. Pearl Street Films is currently producing the HBO revival of Project Greenlight and is in pre-production for film Live By Night, written, directed by and starring Ben. Ben can currently be seen starring in Gone Girl alongside Rosamund Pike in the big screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best seller.