The 41-year-old actor is set to star and direct a new film set in Africa following the success of his Oscar-winning movie ‘Argo’ last year.
Will Staples has been hired to pen the script for the geopolitical thriller based around a group of mercenaries employed to kill a warlord who has been victimizing his own people.
Initial reports by Deadline claim Affleck will work alongside long-time friend and collaboratorMatt Damon and Jennifer Todd to produce the movie with their company Pearl Street films in addition to Warner Brothers Studios.
Meanwhile, Affleck is set to direct and star alongside actress Rosamund Pike in epic period crime drama ‘Live By Night’ based on the best-selling novel by Dennis Lehane.
Affleck is currently filming ‘Gone Girl’ and will also star as Batman in ‘The Man of Steel’sequel which also stars Henry Cavill reprising his role as Superman.
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