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Affleck Ready to Adapt BLADE ITSELF

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Director Ben Affleck and producer Sean Bailey, who produced Gone Baby Gone, are reuniting for a new crime novel adaptation called The Blade Itself, says the Hollywood Reporter. The duo will produce the film through Bailey's Idealogy shingle after Miramax acquired the rights to the Marcus Sakey novel. Also returning is "Gone" co-writer Aaron Stockard, set to pen the screenplay.

Plot Concept:
Story revolves around two Chicago childhood friends who made their reputation committing petty crimes as kids before choosing different paths in life. When they are reunited years later, one is forced to decide how far he will go to protect the secrets of his past.


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Comments/Responses
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exfan • Mar 11, 2008, 02:47am •
why not, it was the best movie i have ever see with his name attached !

ponyboy76 • Mar 11, 2008, 03:34am •
I`m going to assume that you have never seen Good Will Hunting or any of the Kevin Smith flicks.

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms yo!

chirop1 • Mar 11, 2008, 04:58am •
I read the title of this and thought it was referring to the Joe Abercrombie book that came out last year. Guess not.

Ponyboy... every time I hear Affleck's name, all I can think of is "Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms yo!"

joeybaloney • Mar 11, 2008, 05:15am •
LOL # 2 & 3. I've got the same problem chirop1.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to click on the link to Conway Twitty's Gone Baby above the article.

WISEGUY562 • Mar 11, 2008, 07:24am •
The plot sounds real familiar, but I just can't come up with where I read something like this or saw a similar movie. Fucking brain fart, I need some sleep

fft5305 • Mar 11, 2008, 07:58am •
My problem is that now, every time I hear Affleck's name, all I can think of is the Jimmy Kimmel video.

The reason this plot sounds familiar is that it's been done about a thousand times. Usually, though, they're not just childhood friends, they're brothers.

samson7842 • Mar 11, 2008, 11:43am •
If this ends up being as good as "Gone baby, gone." I'm there. That was a really good movie.

mbeckham1 • Mar 11, 2008, 02:14pm •
i want the scene where Michelle Forbes tells Ben Affleck, "This city's forcing all to become razors."

Flint521466 • Mar 11, 2008, 02:35pm •
Kinda sounds like State of Grace to me. Sean Penn is a cop. Gary Oldman & Ed Harris are brothers/irish mobsters. Set in Hell's Kitchen. GREAT MOVIE.

oriongreenguy • Mar 11, 2008, 03:34pm •
It appears that as long as Ben Affleck works behind the camera instead of the front, he'll do good.

The older Affleck should step aside and make way for his younger brother, Casey.

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