{"id":8065,"date":"2017-07-27T12:36:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/ben-affleck-matt-damon-land-boston-crime-drama-showtime\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T17:41:16","slug":"ben-affleck-matt-damon-land-boston-crime-drama-at-showtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/ben-affleck-matt-damon-land-boston-crime-drama-at-showtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck &#038; Matt Damon Land Boston Crime Drama at Showtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime has greenlit a new one-hour drama pilot, <em>City on a Hill<\/em>, from executive producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck MacLean (<em>Boston Strangler<\/em>) serves as writer for <em>City on a Hill<\/em>, and the drama is being directed and executive produced by Gavin O\u2019Connor (<em>The Accountant<\/em>, <em>Warrior<\/em>). The project will also be executive produced by James Mangold (<em>Logan<\/em>, <em>Walk The Line<\/em>) and Jennifer Todd (<em>Jason Bourne<\/em>, <em>Memento<\/em>) for Pearl Street Films.<\/p>\n<p><em>City on a Hill<\/em> is based on an original idea by Affleck and MacLean. It is set in the early &#8217;90s in Boston, providing a fictional account of what was called the \u201cBoston Miracle.\u201d At the center is an African-American District Attorney, who comes in from Brooklyn advocating change, and the unlikely alliance he forms with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran, who is invested in maintaining the status quo. Together, they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that upends Boston\u2019s city-wide criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>City on a Hill<\/em> is a gritty thriller about severe corruption and gangs, the type of series that takes you back and centers on\u00a0the crime-riddled streets of Boston in the early &#8217;90s,\u201d said Todd. \u201cWe are excited to be a part of this project with Showtime and to partner with Gavin again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor added, &#8220;Chuck wrote a pressure-cooker of a script steeped in the tribal codes of a Shakespeare play\u2014family, blood, betrayal, honor. His take on the ties that bind is handled with a deep honesty and insight. 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