{"id":807072,"date":"2026-07-17T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807072\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:27:12","slug":"matt-damon-says-hes-making-a-karen-read-movie-on-kelly-ripas-show-nbc-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807072\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon says he\u2019s making a Karen Read movie on Kelly Ripa\u2019s show \u2013 NBC Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Karen Read production is in the works, this one from a couple of Boston guys who know a thing or two about making movies.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Damon confirmed Friday, amid his press tour for new movie &#8220;The Odyssey,&#8221; that his production company is working on a Karen Read movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m developing a movie at the company about it,&#8221; he said, adding it was in the &#8220;very early days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was talking to Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos on their talk show \u2014 the actor had been asked about the case because Ripa was an avid watcher of the trial. She volunteered to be a consultant on the production.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; is one of the most talked about films of the summer. Hannah Donnelly sits down with the star-studded cast and director Christopher Nolan to talk about the incredible way they brought Homer&#8217;s epic poem to life. Follow NBC10 Boston&#8217;s The Hub Today:https:\/\/instagram.com\/thehubtodayhttps:\/\/facebook.com\/TheHubTodayhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHubTodayhttps:\/\/tiktok.com\/@nbc10boston\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Damon didn&#8217;t say if the movie would be a drama or documentary.<\/p>\n<p>He and Ben Affleck founded the production company Artists Equity. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/artistsequity.com\/projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a> on Friday didn&#8217;t list a Karen Read project alongside other works in production, like a drama about a Nantucket bartender played by Ren\u00e9e Zellweger whose mother and daughter both move in with her and an Affleck-narrated show called &#8220;Hunting Whitey Bulger&#8221; about the infamous Southie mob boss.<\/p>\n<p>Another actor from Massachusetts is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/elizabeth-banks-to-play-karen-read-in-new-prime-video-series-reports\/3798307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reportedly already working on a Karen Read project<\/a>: Pittsfield&#8217;s Elizabeth Banks. The production company behind that limited series, Warner Brothers Television, hasn&#8217;t shared anything about the show since reports about it came out in the Hollywood press last August.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Karen Read production is in the works, this one from a couple of Boston guys who know&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,15289,79418,447,164844,134,380758],"class_list":["post-807072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-affleck","tag-canton","tag-celebrities","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-entertainment","tag-karen-read"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}