Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are to star as lawyers who spend 15 years overturning a murder conviction, which is based on a true story, according to Variety.
Affleck will play Michael Banks and Damon will be J. Gordon Cooney, two lawyers at a Philadelphia firm that took on a pro bono appeal that turned into a 15-year crusade. The lawyers won nine stays of execution for death-row inmate John Thompson and finally got him exonerated of all charges.