They recently worked together on the Oscar contender Ford V Ferrari (yes, yes, we know it's titled Le Mans '66 over here), and it appears that director James Mangold and star Matt Damon are ready to keep that going. Damon is on for the lead in Mangold's adaptation of The Force.
Don Winslow's excellent 2017 crime bestseller tells the story of a corrupt detective in the NYPD's most elite unite. The main character is Sergeant Denny Malone (Damon), who must choose between his partners, his family and his life when he has to stop racial tension boiling over in the city. No easy job when he's already bought and paid for by both Harlem drug gangs and the mob, and is trying to evade the federal investigators looking to take him down. David Mamet wrote the original draft, but Mangold has since been re-writing it alongside his Logan__ collaborator Scott Frank.
Ridley Scott snapped up the rights to adapt the tome before it even had an official title, and Mangold jumped aboard shortly after. With Damon's casting, it pushes the project forward considerably, though it may jockey for position with Mangold's other planned follow-up to his Oscar-nominated effort, a film about Bob Dylan that has Timothée Chalamet attached as the main man.
Winslow's work has been a hot property for a while, and his drug trafficking trilogy The Power Of The Dog, The Cartel and The Border are making their way through develop at US network FX.