Ben Affleck To Star In 'Brat Farrar' Adaptation

[Thursday, February 5th, 2004]
Ben Affleck is to star in Universal Pictures' adaptation of Josephine Tey's novel Brat Farrar, according to Variety. 'Fight Club' scribe Jim Uhls is on board to write the script.

The story follows siblings of an old-money family fighting for the inheritance from their recently deceased father. Affleck will play the eldest brother, thought to have died as a boy years earlier, who surprises his family when he shows up to collect the fortune.

With his position as heir threatened, the younger brother in the clan has reasons, which he can't reveal, to doubt the veracity of the claim.

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