Variety is reporting that Casey Affleck (Triple 9) is set to star in Villain, a vigilante thriller which he’s scripted himself, and has Mikael Marcimain (Wallander, Call Girl) attached to direct.
According to the site, the film takes place in a city overrun with crime, and “Affleck’s character loses everything of meaning in his life when a brutal home invasion leaves his family dead and two bullets lodged in his head. He develops a unique power in the wake of his trauma — an ability to see into people’s pasts, presents, and futures — and goes on a mission of revenge to find the men who killed his family, and in the process clean up his city long overdue for justice. But as his vigilante acts become more frequent and violent in nature, his arrival as the city’s hero may instead be the announcement of its most prolific villain.”
Affleck will next be seen alongside Michelle Williams in Manchester by the Sea, which opens in the States later this month, and has the comedy crime drama The Old Man and the Gun on his upcoming slate, as well as the TV miniseries Lewis and Clark.
Originally published November 2, 2016. Updated April 16, 2018.
