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Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones join Ben Affleck in "The Company
Men," a topical flick about the impact of corporate downsizing on the
masses. Based on the script by director John Wells, "The Company Men"
is slotted to start filming next month in Boston.
Yep, Affleck returns to his roots and Jones, a Harvard grad, will revisit his
collegiate stomping grounds in April.
According to Variety, Affleck plays a corporate bigwig whose six-figure
salary is suddenly cut after he gets a pink slip. Costner, a blue-collar
construction worker, offers Affleck a job installing drywall.
Jones, portraying a senior corporate exec, struggles with the unethical
exploits of his partners.
When asked by Esquire magazine if he's worried about being pigeonholed
as a Boston-only filmmaker, Affleck (who is slotted to director another
made-in-Boston film, "The Town," in 2009) snipes back.
"Yeah, I think there's always a worry among directors that — unless
you're some genius like Paul Thomas Anderson — you'll get pigeonholed,
that maybe you can only tell stories about one city. It's simple: I just
respond to the story," Affleck says. "I have since I first read it. That fact
that it's set in Boston may be part of that, but I'm not out there looking
to document Boston. I want to tell good stories.".
Men," a topical flick about the impact of corporate downsizing on the
masses. Based on the script by director John Wells, "The Company Men"
is slotted to start filming next month in Boston.
Yep, Affleck returns to his roots and Jones, a Harvard grad, will revisit his
collegiate stomping grounds in April.
According to Variety, Affleck plays a corporate bigwig whose six-figure
salary is suddenly cut after he gets a pink slip. Costner, a blue-collar
construction worker, offers Affleck a job installing drywall.
Jones, portraying a senior corporate exec, struggles with the unethical
exploits of his partners.
When asked by Esquire magazine if he's worried about being pigeonholed
as a Boston-only filmmaker, Affleck (who is slotted to director another
made-in-Boston film, "The Town," in 2009) snipes back.
"Yeah, I think there's always a worry among directors that — unless
you're some genius like Paul Thomas Anderson — you'll get pigeonholed,
that maybe you can only tell stories about one city. It's simple: I just
respond to the story," Affleck says. "I have since I first read it. That fact
that it's set in Boston may be part of that, but I'm not out there looking
to document Boston. I want to tell good stories.".
'The Company Men' film heads to Boston in April
by Roland Hansen
by Roland Hansen
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