00:00Jodie Comer.
00:05Straight off her lead actress in a drama series Emmy win for her role in Killing Eve,
00:09Jodie Comer has set her sights on her next project, and it involves Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
00:14I know her better now. Better than anyone. Better than she knows herself.
00:20The Killing Eve stars and talks to join Affleck and Damon in the revenge thriller The Last Duel,
00:25which will be directed by Ridley Scott.
00:27The project, based on the book The Last Duel, a true story of crime, scandal, and trial by combat in
00:32medieval France,
00:33recounts a real-life revenge drama from the last legally-sanctioned duel in France.
00:38Comer would play the wife of a man who goes to war and returns to discover a friend of his
00:41has raped his spouse.
00:43When no one will believe the woman, the soldier appeals to the king of France and says he wants to
00:47fight a duel to the death
00:48to decide the man's fate.
00:50The script is co-written by Nicole Hall of Center, Damon, and Affleck.
00:53Comer will next be seen in theaters in Free Guy.
00:55For more on this story, head to THR.com.
00:58Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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