By Peter Hall

There’s not much Hollywood loves more than a good scandal, so it should be little surprise that the recent raid on FIFA’s allegedly corrupt executives is already heading to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter has word that Ben Affleck is set to produce Houses of Deceit for his home studio Warner Bros.

Affleck won’t be directing the project, though. Those duties are going to Gavin O’Connor, who just recently directed Affleck in The Accountant, which will hit theaters in early 2016. And the whole thing will be based on the as-yet-unpublished book by investigative journalist Ken Bensinger.

Houses of Deceit won’t just be a broad look at the scandal, but rather will focus on American FIFA executive Chuck Blazer, who rose from being a nobody soccer fan to one of the men instrumental to bringing FIFA soccer to the U.S. In doing so, he became quite the power player, though not necessarily through legal means. The government eventually caught wind of his illicit behavior and turned him into one of the witnesses who helped take down the rest of FIFA’s top brass earlier this year.

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