Matt Damon To Tell The Ultimate Boner Joke With CHARLATAN

Matt Damon’s choice in projects continues to get weirder and weirder, as his current Alexander Payne (Downsizing) and George Clooney (Suburbicon) festival hits haven proven. Now, Damon’s chosen to sign onto Charlatan, the story of John R. Brinkley – a real-life doctor who conned his patients into believing he’d discovered the cure for male impotence.

The film will be an adaptation of Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam (JFC, let me read the book already), penned by the team of Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Ocean’s 13). Brinkley started a Kansas clinic in 1918, where he started implanting goat testicles in patients complaining they couldn’t get it up anymore. Unsurprisingly, people died, and Brinkley got in trouble (though not before getting rich quick).

No word on who will direct these scenes of goat balls being spliced into human sacks, but the fact that Damon is also co-producing the picture is a pretty clear indicator as to how committed he is toward the material. Hopefully they use real surgical footage, too.

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