Gone Baby Gone was an incredible directorial debut from the multi-talented Ben Affleck who in the past two years has finally started to put those terrible low brow comedies behind him and has really stepped up his game as an interesting voice in the industry once again.

Smartly, the news today is that Affleck is teaming once again with Gone Baby Gone screenwriter Aaron Stockard and Miramax Studio’s to produce (and possibly direct but the trades don’t say that) another film noir/crime novel in The Blade Itself, a well reviewed first time novel from Marcus Sakey.

“Blade” revolves around two Chicago childhood friends who made their reputation committing petty crimes as kids before choosing different paths in life. When they are reunited years later, one is forced to decide how far he will go to protect the secrets of his past. Esquire magazine named the novel one of the five best of 2007.

Affleck currently has no directing projects in the works so I guess with him producing that it’s his flick if he wants to direct it.

Full story: obsessedwithfilm.com