Matt Damon to Lead Alexander Payne's DOWNSIZING

According to Deadline, Alexander Payne, who's just coming off of his recent Oscar-nominated film NEBRASKA, has enlisted Matt Damon for his next project.

The film, titled DOWNSIZING, is described as: "a social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself."

Payne wrote the script alongside Jim Taylor. The pair previously worked together on SIDEWAYS.

Damon is an Academy Award-winning actor, screenwriter and producer whose extensive film credits include Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote and starred in with Ben Affleck. Damon and Affleck won the Academy Award and Golden Globe in 1997 for Best Original Screenplay. Additionally, he's appeared in Saving Private Ryan, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Brothers Grimm, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, The Departed, Syriana, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Invictus, True Grit, The Adjustment Bureau, Contagion, We Bought a Zoo, Promised Land, and most recently in Steven Soderburgh's Behind the Candelabra, opposite Michael Douglas.

Damon will next appear in Ridley Scott's The Martian.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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