This movie sounds very boilerplate: mayoral candidate, corruption, kidnapping, SECRETSSSSSSS. Ben Affleck, who co-wrote it, originally planned to direct Matt Damon in the lead, with Jennifer Garner as his wife. But then Matt had to go do The Odyssey, as one does, so Ben cast himself and then he and J.Gar decided that playing husband and wife would be way too distracting for viewers. Probably wise. If anyone can handle a flick where people get their hands dirty and reveal their seedy underbellies, it’s the erstwhile Olivia Pope.
