What if someone offered you a substantial sum of money to complete a secret task, erased your memory of it, and then attempted to kill you right after? This is the intriguing premise of a sci-fi thriller that unites the writer of Minority Report, the director of Face/Off, and Ben Affleck at a time when Hollywood was eager to give him significant roles.

The film in question is Paycheck, and this 2003 sci-fi thriller has officially found a new streaming platform. Paramount+ has announced that Paycheck joined its U.S. library on October 1, bringing back John Woo‘s (Mission: Impossible II) adaptation of Philip K. Dick‘s short story to subscription streaming.

Michael Jennings (Affleck) works as a reverse engineer. He undertakes technical jobs for various companies, and once he completes them, his memory of the work is wiped clean. Billionaire James Rethrick (Aaron Eckhart) offers him a job that will last 2 to 3 years, promising Jennings an eight-figure salary. After completing the job, Jennings finds his memory erased. However, when he attempts to claim the $90 million he earned along with his personal belongings, he discovers that he had waived his rights to the money prior to the memory wipe. Moreover, the items returned to him are not what he submitted at the start of his job. Subsequently, he is arrested by the FBI, who accuse him of treason and murder.

The cast features Affleck and Eckhart, along with Uma Thurman (Kill Bill) as Rachel Porter, Paul Giamatti (Sideways) as Shorty, Colm Feore (The Umbrella Academy) as John Wolfe, Joe Morton (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) as Agent Dodge, Michael C. Hall (Dexter) as Agent Klein, and Kathryn Morris (Cold Case) as Rita Dunne.