If you’ve hung around The Movie Blog even a little bit, you know I’ve got more respect for Ben Affleck than most people do (but that’s not saying much). I think the guy has a lot of talent but also really bad judgment.
Having said that, the guy who won an Oscar as a screenwriter for Good Will Hunting is now going to sit in the director’s chair for the upcoming Touchstone film based on the book Gone, Baby, Gone. The good folks at MSNBC give us this:
The film is adapted from writer Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name. Lehane also wrote “Mystic River,” which was turned into an Oscar-nominated movie in 2003 by actor/director Clint Eastwood.
The novel “Gone, Baby, Gone,” tells of two working class private detectives in Boston, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, who are hired to search from a missing child.
I’m interested to see how this one shapes up. Affleck has already proved he can write a story… now let’s see if he can tell a story.
Say all the bad things you want about Ben Affleck. He’s sleeping with Jennifer Garner and you’re not.
