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Matt Damon to play conman doctor in ‘Charlatan’

News Desk (Agence France-Presse)
Thu, September 21, 2017

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Matt Damon to play conman doctor in ‘Charlatan’ Matt Damon leaves the press conference for 'Suburbicon' at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario, September 10, 2017. (AFP/Geoff Robins)

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scar winner Matt Damon has boarded a fresh project, penned by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the writing duo behind Ocean’s Thirteen.

The film, an adaptation of Pope Brock’s 2008 nonfiction book "Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam", will recount the story of John R. Brinkley, a real-life 20th century doctor who conned his patients into thinking that he had discovered the cure to impotence.

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Damon would play Brinkley, who set up a medical practice in the 1920s and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to reverse impotence in local farmers, making his fortune as a result.

The movie will also mark another collaboration for Damon as a producer with K Period Media’s Kimberly Steward, who worked with him behind-the-camera on the Oscar-winning drama Manchester by the Sea. Damon’s Pearl Street Films partner Jennifer Todd will co-produce, reports Variety.

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