Matt Damon and Casey Affleck play complete strangers thrown into their first heist in the new action comedy “ The Instigators." Q&A: Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Hong Chau discuss their Boston heist comedy ‘The Instigators’ The film is written by Affleck and Chuck MacLean and directed by Doug Liman. It is a throwback to the kind of movies that people …
Though depression lurks around the edges of “The Instigators,” Doug Liman’s heist movie is a loosely amiable return to South Boston for Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, who also co-wrote the film. First, “The Instigators” works in a large percentage of today’s top character actors — among them Michael Stuhlbarg, Alfred Molina, Ving Rhames, Toby Jones and Paul Walter Hauser …
Filmmaker Doug Liman realized quickly he wasn’t on his home turf anymore. Matt Damon, who he’d directed in “The Bourne Identity” over 20 years ago, had recruited Liman for his new movie “The Instigators,” an action-comedy about a heist gone wrong. It’s my favorite kind of filmmaking.” “The Instigators,” an Apple TV+ release coming in August is a kind “throwback” …
