The veteran leading man recently took on the iconic literary role of Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and he'll soon reunite with longtime collaborator Ben Affleck for the upcoming Netflix crime thriller Animals, which Affleck is directing. While those projects have generated plenty of headlines, one of Damon's biggest successes of 2026 has come from an under-the-radar thriller. The Rip is Netflix's biggest movie of 2026 so farDamon and Affleck's latest collaboration, The Rip, has topped Nielsen's list of the most-streamed movies released in 2026 so far. The next Damon-Affleck Netflix thriller is on its wayThe cast of the The Rip in the back of a police vehicle. Damon is set to star in Animals, an upcoming Netflix crime thriller directed by Affleck, who also co-stars alongside Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington, Steven Yeun, Ray Fisher, and Adriana Paz.