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Ben Affleck is in talks while Justin Timberlake will star in the dramatic thriller "Runner, Runner" says Variety.

Plot deets are unknown except for the story being set in the world of illegal online gambling.

Brad Furman ("The Lincoln Lawyer") will direct from a script by "Rounders" scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien.

Koppelman, Levien, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher and Scott Steindorff will produce the pic