After making a meta-textual screen acting comeback in 2020's The Way Back, Ben Affleck is looking to make his screen directing comeback. As reported by Deadline, Affleck will be directing The Big Goodbye, a dramatized look behind the scenes of the iconic Hollywood film Chinatown. The Big Goodbye will be based on the book of the same name by Sam Wasson. Released in 1974, Chinatown rocked audiences with its incendiary script by Robert Towne, nihilistic direction by Roman Polanski, and committed performances by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. It also represents a sort of last "gasp" at the …

After making a meta-textual screen acting comeback in 2020's The Way Back, Ben Affleck is looking to make his screen directing comeback. As reported by Deadline, Affleck will be directing The Long Goodbye, a dramatized look behind the scenes of the iconic Hollywood film Chinatown. The Long Goodbye will be based on the book of the same name by Sam Wasson. Released in 1974, Chinatown rocked audiences with its incendiary script by Robert Towne, nihilistic direction by Roman Polanski, and committed performances by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. It also represents a sort of last "gasp" at the …