Ben Affleck will rewrite, direct and star in “The Town,” a Warner Bros. adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel “The Prince of Thieves.” Graham King is producing through his GK Films banner. Affleck would play a career thief who becomes smitten by the manager of a bank. The project - which most recently had director Adrian Lyne attached - would be based in Charlestown, Mass., a gritty blue-collar Boston suburb similar to the one that Affleck captured in his directorial debut, “Gone Baby Gone.” Affleck is doing a rewrite on the most recent draft by Peter Craig and Hogan.