Damon could team up on screen again with Mark Wahlberg for a biopic based on the life of former world champion boxer Micky Ward.
Wahlberg and Damon are being lined up to play the roles of Ward and his trainer half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebuilt his life after problems with drugs, Variety reported.
Massachusetts-born Ward, a former World Boxing Union lightweight champion, retired in 2003 following the third and final installment of a trilogy of bruising battles against Canada's Arturo Gatti.
The last movie made by stripper-turned-celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, a sci-fi comedy titled Illegal Aliens, will be released on DVD in May, its distributor said.
The film stars Smith, who died last week in Florida, as one of three aliens who transform themselves into "super-hot babes and arrive to protect the Earth from intergalactic forces of evil," according to press materials from MTI Home Video, which will distribute the movie.
MTI spokesman Ed Baran described Illegal Aliens, which is unrated, as a low-budget, deliberately "high-camp" production in which Smith lampoons her own ditsy sex-bomb image.
No release is planned for movie theaters, Baran said.
A trailer, posted on the Web site of the production company, Edgewood Studios (www.edgewoodstudios.com), shows Smith's character, Lucy, shouting, "Nobody sticks a missile in Lucy's butt and gets away with it!"
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