Matt Damon and Ben Affleck share the screen with newly anointed Golden Globe winner Teyana Taylor in The Rip.
Taylor (One Battle After Another), Affleck and Damon play Miami cops who lose a fellow member of the force in the crime thriller, which uses New Jersey to stand in for Florida.
Joe Carnahan (Not Without Hope, Shadow Force) wrote and directed the film, premiering Thursday, January 15 on Netflix.
The Rip also stars Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Steven Yeun (Beef, Minari) and Sasha Calle (The Flash).
The Netflix production filmed in Los Angeles as well as Hudson, Union and Passaic counties in the fall of 2024. Oscar-winning collaborators Damon and Affleck, who produced the film through their Artists Equity production company, play Lt. Dane Dumars and Detective Sgt. JD Byrne in the movie, a twisty story “inspired by true events.”
In the wake of the death of Miami police captain Jackie Velez (Lina Esco), the murder is investigated as an inside job, with her closest friends and colleagues becoming suspects. But the situation really starts to spiral when Dumars, Byrne and the Tactical Narcotics Team find many millions of dollars hidden in a stash house and the bonds of trust become ever more slippery.
Catalina Sandino Moreno and Teyana Taylor in The Rip. Photo: Claire Folger/Netflix
Oscar nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace) plays another police detective in The Rip, and Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Argo) plays a DEA agent. Rounding out the cast are Scott Adkins (John Wick: Chapter 4) and Néstor Carbonell (The Morning Show).
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority tells New Jersey Monthly that The Rip filmed at 10 Basin Studios, a soundstage in Kearny.
The production also used Jersey City and several locations in Bayonne, including Hook Road between Avenue J and Commerce Street; Commerce Street onto Hook Road; Avenue A from First Street through Juliette Street; 92 E. Second Street; Fire Department Station 7 on New Hook Road; and a lot at 24 Ave. A. In Elizabeth, The Rip filmed at Amboy Avenue and Myrtle Street. In Wayne, the production used the old Toys R Us headquarters at 1 Geoffrey Way, which is now home to Dobco, a construction and real estate development company.
Steven Yeun, Matt Damon and writer/director Joe Carnahan on the set of The Rip. Photo: Warrick Page/Netflix
Affleck previously appeared in another Carnahan-directed crime thriller, the 2006 movie Smokin’ Aces.
The Rip, streaming on Netflix, is rated R and runs 2 hours and 13 minutes.
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