Jennifer Garner in Talks to Star in Ben Affleck’s Crime Thriller ‘Animals’

Jennifer Garner may be joining Ben Affleck for his latest movie outing.

The actress, who was married to the Oscar-winning filmmaker for 13 years, is in negotiations to star opposite Matt Damon in Animals, a crime thriller set up at Netflix.

Affleck is directing the feature and is also producing with Damon via their Artists Equity banner, along with the company’s Dani Bernfeld. Also producing are Brad Weston and Collin Creighton via their MakeReady shingle.

Pieces are still being put together, including Garner’s deal, but if it all fits, the thriller could be before cameras in Los Angeles starting March.

Written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray, the crime thriller concerns a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped. Surrounded by plenty of enemies, political and otherwise, the husband and wife have no choice but to get their hands dirty in order to save their son.

Garner would play the wife opposite Damon as the candidate.

Garner, who has shown her versatility via movies and series that span comedies to rom-coms to thriller, is a Netflix favorite, having starred or co-starred in the streamer’s hits Family Switch, The Adam Project, and Yes Day.

Garner and Affleck have appeared together in front of the camera in a trio of movies, all made before their marriage in 2005: 2001’s Pearl Harbor, 2003’s Daredevil, and that movie’s spinoff, Elektra, released in 2005. She has not yet, however, been directed by him.

Affleck and Garner divorced in 2018.

She is repped by CAA and Sloane Offer.

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