Ben Affleck is in negotiations to star in Miramax’s Mike Judge comedy Extract, reports Variety.
Affleck will play an ambulance-chasing lawyer in the film, which centers on a flower extract factory owner (Jason Bateman) who’s dealing with workplace problems and a streak of bad luck, including his wife’s affair with a gigolo.
Clifton Collins Jr. is also joining the cast as a factory worker who loses a body part in a freak accident and is now due for a huge settlement. Mila Kunis and Kristen Wiig have already boarded the project, which begins filming Monday in Los Angeles.
Judge wrote the screenplay and is producing with John Altschuler and Mike Rotenberg via the trio’s Ternion Productions.
