Ben Affleck Joins Hulu’s New Docuseries Hunting Whitey Bulger

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Ben Affleck is joining a new Hulu series based on a notorious crime boss.

According to Deadline, Ben Affleck will narrate and executive produce a new three-part documentary series called Hunting Whitey Bulger. Whitey Bulger, the subject of the series, was the inspiration for the film The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese. This project is part of Hulu’s increased investment in true crime documentaries.

As a true crime and mob movie fan, the story of Whitey Bulger is just wild. He was the boss of the Winter Hill Gang, a notorious Irish mob crew out of Boston. Can you believe the guy went on the run for sixteen years after getting a heads-up from his FBI contact? They finally caught him in 2011, and the trial revealed he was responsible for eleven murders and convicted him on 31 counts. He got two life sentences, but sadly, his story ended even more violently – he was killed while serving time in prison back in 2018.

This documentary series will feature never-before-seen handwritten letters from prison, along with new interviews with key people involved. It aims to provide the complete and final account of how Whitey Bulger was caught and ultimately killed.

Zackary Canepari, the director known for the police documentary series Flint Town, will helm Hunting Whitey Bulger. The series comes from Tom Forman’s Terminal B TV, the production company behind the Netflix true crime docuseries Unknown Number: The High School Catfish. Tom Forman, David Metzler, and Claire Read, who is also the showrunner, will serve as executive producers.

Ben Affleck will executive produce the film Hunting Whitey Bulger through his production company, Artists Equity, working with Kyle Wheeler. This isn’t the first time Affleck, an Oscar winner twice over, has been involved with a project about Whitey Bulger. He and Matt Damon had previously planned to make a movie about the gangster, but that project never came to fruition.

I first heard about this project way back in October 2011 – it was set up at Warner Bros. and the really exciting part was it would have reunited Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the duo behind Good Will Hunting. Ben was going to direct and co-write, also producing, and Matt was slated to play Whitey Bulger. It felt like a natural next step for them, building on that Oscar-winning chemistry.

Affleck mentioned growing up hearing tales about Bulger, and now he’s able to share that story himself – though not exactly as he first imagined. His documentary, Hunting Whitey Bulger, is joining other true crime series on Hulu, like The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story and Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese.

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2026-05-21 21:48