It’s time to play everyone’s favorite game, “Rejected Sears model, Amber Alert suspect or Matt Damon in character.” A celeb site ickily called Splash received a batch of open-shirted, pale Damon photos from the set of Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant. We haven’t talked much about the flick on /Film: Damon plays Mark Whitacre, “the highest level executive to turn whistle-blower in U.S. history,” whose prolonged undercover work for the FBI gathering price-fixing evidence against his employer, an agri-biz powerhouse, um, did nothing to help a severe bipolar disorder.
Moreover, Whitacre embezzled millions from his employer while working with the “good guys.” He was released from prison in 2006 after serving more than eight years, and now has a COO position in bio-tech. If you saw the guy pictured here at the hotel pool, such a bizarre narc trajectory would sound about right, no? Scott Bakula will play the main FBI dude in the film, which is a welcome/unpredictable casting choice for a role usually created for Christian Bale. Opening March ‘09, The Informant looks to join notable white collar paranoia thrillers like The Insider, Michael Clayton and Damon’s own The Good Shepherd.
via Gawker
Discuss: Based on the real life events and this collectible photo, interested in seeing this?
June 25th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Haha. Oh wow.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
after reading all that, i’m surprisingly psyched for this. i have a feeling that it’s going to reach “confessions of a dangerous mind” levels of weirdness/awesome.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Matt Damon is the man.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
haha holy shit, that picture is great.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
And yes, I want to see this. I like Soderbergh and Damon.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Hey… I dress like that too!
June 25th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
@ jonny
Want to rent a windowless van and go on tour?
June 25th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
That’s Matt Damon????
June 25th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Scott Bakula? Blast from the past indeed.
June 25th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
The Informant is my favorite book of all time! I can’t wait to see this movie! I’m so glad that it has a good cast and a great director! Anyone else here read the book?
June 25th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
@ Hunter.
How bout a red Cadillac ride through the bat country?
You bring the salt shaker of coke.. I’ll bring the Canadian weed, beer………and a jar of ether.
( or a can of starter fluid from Canadian tire..)
June 25th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Oh, ewww. Please tell me it’s a fat suit. He’d better lose all that before BI4.