Ben Affleck In Talks for First-Person Shooter Thriller Line of Sight

Turn a lesbian? Check.
Save the world from killer asteroids? Check.
Shake off the stink of "Bennifer?" Triple-check!
What else has Ben Affleck left to prove that he can't do? According to THR, make the first video-game movie that isn't a piece of celluloid shit. Sorta.
The trades report Affleck is in talks to direct and star in the action thriller Line of Sight for Warner Brothers:
"The idea, conceived by Silver Pictures' Alex Heineman (who also exec produces), centers on an elite commando squad transporting cargo while dealing with a global threat. One of the conceits of the movie is that it tells the tale from a point-of-view akin to a first-person shooter game. The script was recently worked on by Peter O’Brien, the man who wrote the game Halo: Reach for Xbox 360."
This would come after Affleck completes his soon-to-start-filming the Iran hostage thriller Argo. Talk about a movie that sounds great! If one wonders this is a tad too ambitious (Fair enough, point, I'll admit) and if Affleck is the man for this job, remember he was high on WB's list for The Man of Steel before turning them down and Zack Snyder got the gig.
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