Affleck, Damon reteam on Bulger bio

AffleckDamonWarner Bros. is getting back the "Good Will Hunting" team, tapping Film Clip to direct and star inside a Whitey Bulger biopic by which Matt Damon will portray the mobster.Casey Affleck will co-star, and "Boardwalk Empire" creator Terence Winter is writing the script.Studio confirmed the project Monday, five several weeks after Bulger, the mind of Boston's Winter Hill Gang, was taken in Santa Monica after standing on the lam for 16 years. Bulger fled government bodies in Boston right before he was indicted in 1995 for federal racketeering.News from the project was initially reported in GQ magazine, which questioned Damon.Affleck and Damon will produce under their Gem Street Films shingle through their first-look cope with Warner Bros. Gem Street's Chay Carter will professional produce, and Sarah Schechter is managing for that studio.Affleck's made three films for Warners -- "Gone Baby Gone," "The CityInch and "Argo," presently in production.Damon and Affleck, each repped by WME, teamed around the 1997 drama "Good Will Hunting" and won the script Oscar. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com