Ben Affleck Joins Mike Judge’s Extract

Ben Affleck has just signed on to the new Mike Judge comedy Extract. He joins the already cast Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, and Kristen Wiig. Clifton Collins Jr. has also joined the film, reports Variety.

The story centers on a flower extract factory owner (Jason Bateman) who’s dealing with workplace problems and a streak of bad luck, including his wife’s affair with a gigolo. Affleck will play an ambulance-chasing lawyer, while Collins Jr. has been cast as a factory worker who loses a body part in a freak accident and is now due for a huge settlement.

Judge penned the screenplay and is producing with John Altschuler and Mike Rotenberg via the trio’s Ternion Productions shingle for Miramax. Production begins Monday in Los Angeles.

Affleck has a longstanding relationship with Miramax dating back to Good Will Hunting during the Weinstein brothers era. He made his directorial debut, last year’s Gone Baby Gone, for the specialty label.