{"id":128488,"date":"2025-09-10T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128488\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:36:10","slug":"ben-affleck-and-matt-damon-test-their-friendship-in-the-rip-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128488\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test their friendship in The Rip teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck\u2019s friendship<\/a> is integral in the first teaser for The Rip. On-screen, they play two Miami cops whose relationship starts to fray when they discover a huge pile of money in a derelict stash house. As we see in the tense trailer, the partners soon learn that \u201ctrust has a price\u201d\u2014approximately $20 million. The two actors\u2019 long-time friendship was a major factor behind-the-scenes as well. \u201cYou talk about the meta of something\u2026 you\u2019ve got these two guys who have both been world-famous for over 30 years with a wonderful sense of friendship and brotherhood,\u201d director Joe Carnahan told Tudum<\/a> of working with the duo, who also serve as producers on the film. \u201cThose guys are just so gifted and lovely and talented and open.\u201d The rest of the cast, which includes Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, and Sasha Calle, got to \u201cdraft off them,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

The authenticity of that relationship is especially important as the two characters begin to question each other\u2019s motives. \u201cIt would be so much easier if we just stole this money, I swear to god,\u201d Damon\u2019s character says before things really go downhill. He\u2019s joking, but there\u2019s clearly a grain of desire behind it, one Affleck\u2019s character picks up on. Later, he explains that a tattoo he has on his hand stands for \u201cAre we the good guys?\u201d It seems like that question will get harder for both men to answer as the movie goes on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It was a friendship of his own that inspired Carnahan, whose previous credits include Copshop<\/a> and The Grey<\/a>, to make the film in the first place. \u201cThe Rip came out of a deeply personal experience that my friend went through, both as a father and as head of tactical narcotics for the Miami Dade police department,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s inspired in part by his life and then, by my enduring love for those classic \u201870\u2019s cop thrillers that really valued the character and interpersonal relationships and became touchstones of that era\u2014films like Serpico and Prince of The City and more recently, Michael Mann\u2019s Heat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Twilight Zone: \u201cA Hundred Yards Over The Rim\u201d\/\u201cThe Rip Van Winkle Caper\u201d<\/a>Beirut:\u00a0The Rip Tide<\/a><\/p>\n

Grab your friends and tune in on Netflix January 16\u2014if for nothing else than to have a really intense conversation of your own about whether you would still be friends after stumbling on $20 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Damon and Ben Affleck\u2019s friendship is integral in the first teaser for The Rip. On-screen, they play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-128488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}