Ben Affleck and Jon Hamm to Star in The Town
by Matt Richenthal at . CommentsBased in Boston and starring an Emmy winner, Ben Affleck has found his directorial project.
The Gone Baby Gone director will helm, and star in, The Town. The film will feature Affleck, as a bank robber, along with Jon Hamm. The Mad Men star will portray an FBI agent.
Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) is also on board. She'll take on the role of a bank teller that both Hamm and Affleck's characters fall for.
The Town focuses on a professional thief that develops feelings for the female teller at the bank he attempts to heist, and the FBI agent who is obsessed with nabbing him and his crew.