Ben Affleck to play a thief in love in new movie

September 17, 2008 11:12:18 AM

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Actor and director Ben Affleck will direct and star in a romance-heist movie named "The Town," where a bank robber falls in love with a bank manager, reported the industry newspaper Variety on Tuesday.

Affleck, who won an Oscar for Best Screenplay with Matt Damon for "Good Will Hunting" in 1998, also rewrote the script for the new project for the Warner Bros. studio.

It will be Affleck's second movie as director, after the critically acclaimed 2007 drama "Gone Baby Gone," which told the story of a girl kidnapped in a rundown Boston suburb.