Matt Damon Reveals Movie About Karen Read Trial Is on the Way

Matt Damon Reveals Movie About Karen Read Trial Is on the Way

Matt Damon is heading back to Beantown.

The Odyssey actor confirmed that his and Ben Affleck’s production company is currently developing a film about Karen Read, who in June of 2025 was found not guilty of second-degree murder in connection to the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe.

While Damon shared on the July 17 episode of Live With Kelly and Mark that the film is still in “very early days,” host Kelly Ripa was overjoyed by the news.

“I am very excited about this,” she exclaimed, joking his team could come to her if they “need a consultant.”

Husband and cohost Mark Consuelos reaffirmed his wife’s obsession with the case, adding that the two televised trials—the first ended in a mistrial and Read acquitted in the second—were “on at hour house eight hours a day, and then the recap was on every day of what happened during that trial. Kelly’s well verse in this.”

An amused Damon noted that he would “let the team know,” as Ripa confirmed she could “answer any of your questions.”

While Damon didn’t share any other news regarding a timeline for his film, Read’s story, which rocked New England before making headlines nationwide, is already headed for the small screen in a limited series for Prime Video starring Damon’s fellow Massachusetts native Elizabeth Banks. But according to Read herself, she was not involved in the show nor in the casting process.

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“I probably read that the same time you did give or take a couple minutes,” the 46-year-old shared on The Howie Carr Show in August. “I have nothing to do with that. It's not authorized by me in any way.”

Read explained that she “did not bless this,” especially as she believes there is so much “more to this story.”

“There's a lot more to it than what I think Elizabeth Banks knows at this point,” she added. “But I've never spoken to her.”

And since her not guilty verdict last year, Read has been candid about how difficult it’s been for to reacclimated to her everyday life.

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“It’s not quite as I expected,” she told Howie Carr. “I was expecting a switch to be flipped that was the opposite of the one that got flipped on me at 6 a.m. on January 29, 2022.”

Instead, it was more “like a dimmer that the lights are coming on, little brighter each week.”

“There’s moments I have every day,” Read continued, “that have these little epiphanies of, ‘Wow, this is the first time I’ve done fill-in-the-blank in the last four years that I wasn’t living with this nightmare.”

For a deep dive into everything to know about Read’s trial, keep reading.

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