Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Star In First Trailer For The Rip

Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming action thriller The Rip, which you can watch below!

“I’ve always been a big fan of the cop film,” Joe Carnahan tells Tudum. The writer and director of the upcoming action thriller The Rip also made the movies Narc and Copshop, two films which are very different from one another, with The Rip being a departure from both of those. It’s “an extension of that genre,” Carnahan explains, with a real-life component, a very emotional core, and a key question that gets posed throughout the film: Are we the good guys?

Starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, The Rip follows a team of Miami cops who have discovered millions in cash in a derelict stash house. Soon, the trust between them begins to erode, especially once outside forces learn about the size of the seizure. Everything is called into question — including who they can rely on.

At the center of this film is the dynamic between Lieutenant Dane Dumars (Damon, “essentially playing the doppelgänger” of Carnahan’s friend)  and Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne (Affleck), who can be seen in new photos and the just-released teaser trailer working closely together, as partners and as part of a larger team. It’s clear that Dumars and Byrne have the kind of communicative shorthand that can only come from a longstanding relationship. It’s an intimacy that feels palpable for audiences; even as Dumars and Byrne are starting to wonder whether they can trust each other anymore, viewers believe in the strength of their bond.

“You talk about the meta of something,” Carnahan says about having Damon and Affleck, who are both producers on The Rip, in these roles, “you’ve got these two guys who have both been world-famous for over 30 years with a wonderful sense of friendship and brotherhood … Those guys are just so gifted and lovely and talented and open.”

You can watch the trailer below:

The Rip streams on Netflix from January 16th. 

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