City on a Hill: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to make pilot for Showtime

Los Angeles: Showtime has given an official pilot order to "City On A Hill", executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

The show will be helmed by 'The Accountant' director Gavin O'Connor, reported Variety.

Written by Chuck MacLean based on an original idea by Affleck and MacLean, 'City On A Hill' is set in Boston in the early '90s when the city was rife with violent criminals emboldened by local law enforcement agencies, in which corruption and racism was the norm, until it all suddenly changed.

The drama is a fictional account of what was called the 'Boston Miracle' and centers on an African-American District Attorney who comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and the unlikely alliance he forms with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran who is invested in maintaining the status quo.

The project had been in a works for a while, with Boston native Affleck at one point tipped to direct.

Damon and Affleck's Pearl Street banner also produced the TV series 'Incorporated' and 'Project Greenlight,' which ran for four seasons on HBO.