Matt Damon and Ben Affleck create new TV thriller

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in 1998

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's new TV series has been picked up by Syfy.

The Hollywood duo's thriller, created with Jennifer Todd's Pearl Street Films, CBS Television Studios and Universal Cable Prods, has been given the green light for 13 episodes, Deadline reports.

The series, set to launch this fall, is set in a dystopian future and tells the story of a young executive infiltrating a very dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.

It will star Eddie Ramos, Dennis Haysbert and Julia Ormond. Damon and Affleck will executive produce.