Last week, we reported that Ben Affleck was taking a step back. But, clearly, he’s not stepping too far back.

According to Deadline.com, the actor-director is teaming with his buddy Matt Damonto executive produce a pilot for Showtime called “City on a Hill,’’ a fictional account of the “Boston Miracle,’’ when law enforcement, prosecutors, and others worked together to quell a deadly spasm of street violence in the mid-1990s.

The TV pilot will be set in Boston and center on an African-American DA, newly arrived in the Hub from Brooklyn, who forms an unlikely alliance with an ethically-challenged FBI veteran. They take on a family of armored-car robbers from Charlestown. The pilot will be written by Chuck McLean and directed by Gavin O’Connor, whose credits include “The Accountant’’ and “The Americans’’ pilot.

“Chuck wrote a pressure-cooker of a script steeped in the tribal codes of a Shakespeare play — family, blood, betrayal, honor,’’ O’Connor told Deadline. “His take on the ties that bind is handled with a deep honesty. . . . I see the show as a brawling thriller — and an intimate family drama — played out on the rough streets of Boston.’’

Affleck has been much in the news lately amid speculation that he’s worn the Batman suit for the final time. (He says that’s not true.) He recently stepped away from the Netflix thriller “Triple Frontier,’’ in part because he wanted to focus on “his wellness and his family.’’ He’s also been tabloid fodder for his relationship with “SNL’’ producer girlfriend Lindsay Shookus.