The big Ben theory

It looks like Ben Affleck has found his next project as a director. The actor has been busy portraying on-screen characters for the past couple of years now and it’s time he took the director’s seat again.

Affleck will get behind the camera to direct The Big Goodbye, an adaptation of Sam Wasson’s book The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and The Last Years of Hollywood. Reportedly, Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels had the rights for the book and brought it to Paramount Pictures. He and Affleck will produce the project while the latter is set to pen the script as well. The non-fiction book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the 1974 film starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.