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Variety reports that Ben Affleck has signed on to the new Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head, Office Space) vehicle Extract. 

Affleck, who turned 36 last week, will be playing an ambulance chasing attorney opposite Jason Bateman (Hancock, Juno) who will be playing a down on his luck flower extract factory owner. 

Also starring is Clifton Collins Jr ( NBC’s Fear Itself, JJ Abrams’ Star Trek) as an employee of Bateman’s character who loses a body part in a freak workplace accident, Mila Kunis, (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Max Payne) and Kristen Wiig (SNL). 

Affleck is also starring in the romantic comedy He’s Just Not That Into You and the crime thriller State of Play both for release in ‘09.

Sources:

Variety

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