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'The Instigators' Trailer: See 'Good Will Hunting' Co-Stars Matt Damon and Casey Affleck Reunite


Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are teaming up for a heist comedy.

On Friday, the streaming service dropped the first trailer for the action comedy, which follows struggling father Rory (Damon) and ex-con Cobby (Affleck), two unlikely partners who team up to steal from a corrupt politician. "The inspiration for this was definitely Midnight Run and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," Affleck previously told Entertainment Weekly, before adding that he'd always "wanted to do a buddy action comedy." As for why Damon signed on to the project, which reunited him with his Bourne Identity director, the actor said, "Casey Affleck and Chuck MacLean had created some great characters and a really fun world.

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