Matt Damon Plays a Heavy in Latest Movie

Thursday June 12, 2008 10:00 AM EDT

Matt Damon, working on The Informant

Andrew Shawaf/Pacific Coast News

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Bourne it's apparently not. Matt Damon's latest, The Informant, which he began shooting in Illinois last month, has been long aborning – at least six years. First announced in 2002, the film is based on New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald's book of the same name about real-life agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland and how it was brought to justice after one of its employees leaked info about it. That would be Mark Whitacre (Damon), who revealed the intricacies of the company's price-fixing scam that ultimately resulted in its being fined $100 million. Ocean's 11's Steven Soderbergh is directing, and, from the look of early production snaps, PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive isn't his usual sleek self. Guess he needs to shed those secrets.
– Stephen M. Silverman

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