Ben Affleck Gets Judged

By George 'El Guapo' Roush on August 21, 2008

From the trades, comes exciting news for Ben Affleck fans. All ten of them:

Ben Affleck is ready to suit up for Miramax's Mike Judge comedy "Extract."

Actor is in negotiations to play an ambulance-chasing lawyer in the pic, which centers on a flower extract factory owner (Jason Bateman) who's dealing with workplace problems and a streak of bad luck, including his wife's affair with a gigolo.

Clifton Collins Jr. is also joining the cast as a factory worker who loses a body part in a freak accident and is now due for a huge settlement. Mila Kunis and Kristen Wiig have already boarded the project, which begins lensing Monday in Los Angeles.

Judge penned the screenplay and is producing with John Altschuler and Mike Rotenberg via the trio's Ternion Prods. shingle.

Affleck has a longstanding relationship with Miramax dating back to "Good Will Hunting" during the Weinstein brothers era. He made his directorial debut, last year's "Gone Baby Gone," for the specialty label.

Affleck's last significant onscreen role was in 2006's "Hollywoodland." He has two films in the can: Universal's "State of Play" and Warner Bros.' "He's Just Not That Into You."

Collins will next appear in "The Perfect Game" and "Crank 2" for Lionsgate, "Horsemen" for Mandate and J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" prequel for Paramount.

Idiocracy was a actually pretty funny, but nobody knew about it because the studio abandoned it. Hopefully this Mike Judge film gets some advertising.

Source:The Trades

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• Thu Aug 21 at 08:56 EST

  "Affleck was Da bomb in Phantoms yo!" (not really though)

  Author: The Man With No Name | Permalink

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