Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's New Netflix Crime Thriller The Rip Drops Explosive First Trailer
Get a glimpse of the high-stakes action that's already turning heads.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are back doing what they do best: teaming up for a slick crime thriller. Netflix just dropped the first trailer for The Rip, with the movie set to hit the streamer in January 2026. After rolling out a batch of new images yesterday, this is our first real look at what they have cooking.
The setup
Directed by Joe Carnahan and inspired by true events, The Rip follows a team of Miami cops who bust into a stash house and stumble onto a small fortune in dirty cash. From there, it becomes a pressure cooker: millions on the table, loyalties wobbling, nerves fraying, and everyone trying to figure out who they can trust when the money starts talking.
- Release window: January 2026 on Netflix
- Director: Joe Carnahan
- Cast: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Kyle Chandler, and action specialist Scott Adkins
- Premise: Miami police raid a stash house, find a pile of dirty money, and the discovery blows up the unit from the inside
- Inspired by: true events
- Producers: Affleck and Damon are also producing, so their fingerprints are all over this one
Inside baseball
This is an Artists Equity joint, the Affleck-Damon production banner that keeps lining up star-driven projects. They already delivered Air in 2023, have The Accountant 2 in the pipeline, and their musical drama Kiss of the Spider Woman — starring Jennifer Lopez — is set to hit theaters on October 10, 2025. In other words, they are busy.
"Our goal is always to just make movies that we think we’ll like, which is really the same calculus we use in our own careers as actors. It kind of drives our creative team crazy, because they’re like, ‘What are we looking for?’ And we always just go, A good movie."
— Matt Damon, to GQ
Why this looks promising
Carnahan doing a moral-rot cops-and-cash thriller is very on-brand, and pairing him with Affleck and Damon — plus Steven Yeun and Kyle Chandler for added steel, Teyana Taylor and Sasha Calle for fresh sparks, and Scott Adkins for the bruising — is a smart combo. If the trailer is any indication, expect a lot of sweaty backroom decision-making and a slow, ugly unraveling once the money starts bending the rules. Netflix is clearly betting big on old-school star power here, and honestly, same.