No, it’s not Batman and Robin, but it looks like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up to make a comic-book movie after all.

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Sleeper

Variety reports that the lovable Oscar-winning duo will produce Sleeper , a book from DC Comics that has been in development since 2008 at Warner Bros.Ed Brubaker wrote the title, which featured art by Sean Phillips and was about, according to Variety, a “noir universe where a few people are spontaneously developing superpowers.” I’m not familiar with the comic, but it looks like it’s part of the Wildstorm Universe and is a spinoff of the comics Point Blank and Gen 13. Can a Grunge solo movie be far behind?Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and David Wiener (The Killing) will adapt Sleeper, which at one time had Sam Raimi attached as a producer and Tom Cruise involved as well. No actors are currently attached to the film, however, and it sounds like Affleck and Damon are onboard as producers only.At any rate, this now marks the second DC property that Affleck is involved with. You may have heard of the other one…

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