ROTTEN TOMATOES: Matt Damon Talks Next Ben Affleck Collaboration

Matt Damon Talks Next Ben Affleck Collaboration

The Good Will golden boys look to the future.

by Fred Topel | August 13, 2007

Rumor has it that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are working on another script together. It would be the first time in 10 years the magic Good Will Hunting duo put words to paper. While doing press for The Bourne Ultimatum, Damon revealed that their potential project is not a script collaboration.

"We’re not working on a script right now, but we’re talking about a bunch of different things," he said. "His career just totally has gone in this really new and exciting direction, because I’ve seen the movie that he directed and it is really good. So he’s gone from being an actor to now being a director, now being somebody that can give me a job, so our whole relationship’s completely changed."

Damon has seen Gone Baby Gone and is so impressed, he put Affleck on a short list of directors he wants to work with. "It’s fantastic, the performances are great and every actor is going to want to work with him after they see this thing."

Hey Matt, maybe you could write something that he'll have to direct. "That’s a new dynamic that our partnership can have. We can do a movie that we act in, or I act in and he directs, or something that we co-direct, or something that co-write and co-direct, there are so many different possibilities now because he’s gone and done this really great movie. So it’s exciting and now we’ve started to talk about that stuff again. We both put our heads down and worked pretty hard in this last ten years, and so now we’ve woken up with careers and families and all the things that we wanted, and so hopefully the next ten years will be about doing better work, maybe doing a little less of it, but doing better stuff and doing more together."

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JpPrewitt789 writes:
on Aug 07 2007 10:09 PM

Anyone know what the status is on if/when a Bourne 4 is coming out?

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mjolson20 writes:
on Aug 07 2007 11:47 PM

little confused but hey if damons gonna be in affleck's next flick or anyone's really most likely its gonna be good

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arendr writes:
on Aug 13 2007 05:48 PM

In reply to this comment (#1021247)
Bourne 4? Pretty sure that's not happening. They should leave it as a trilogy.

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TheAnswerMVP2001 writes:
on Aug 13 2007 06:16 PM

"His career just totally has gone in this really new and exciting direction, because I%u2019ve seen the movie that he directed and it is really good. So he%u2019s gone from being an actor to now being a director, now being somebody that can give me a job, so our whole relationship%u2019s completely changed."

In other words Affleck has finally hit rock bottom as an actor so he's now going to attempt to be a director. Since Affleck never knew how to perform in front of the camera I highly doubt he's going to have any worthy advice to give to people he "directs". I think Damon is just being nice, since Affleck's his friend.

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mimisnowball writes:
on Aug 13 2007 06:53 PM

Matt said: That%u2019s a new dynamic that our partnership can have. We can do a movie that we act in, or I act in and he directs, or something that we co-direct, or something that co-write and co-direct, there are so many different possibilities now because he%u2019s gone and done this really great movie.
Interestingly, of all the possibilities Matt never says something that I write or I direct. I'd like to see if he can write without Ben since Ben has now written without him. Prove you deserved that Oscar Matt!

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robzass writes:
on Aug 13 2007 08:59 PM

Ben Affleck really gets a bad wrap. He's not as bad as they say. There was a time (pre bad movie stint) we all loved him.

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highdough writes:
on Aug 13 2007 09:53 PM

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Rock bottom? Last time I checked, he was still make millions as an actor and his movies were being released in the theatre. I think someone needs a little perspective here.

As directing, I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with how good an actor one is. I've never felt Martin Scorses burned up the screen but he's a pretty good director. Everything I've heard about Gone Baby Gone has been excellent. However you feel as Affleck as an actor, it has NOTHING to do with how good a director he is. Perhaps, it's being a director that is his calling and not being an actor. Ever think of that?

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arpeggio191 writes:
on Aug 14 2007 05:51 AM

The Ludlum books stop with the Ultimatum, although there has been the "Bourne Legacy" and the "Bourne Betrayal" written by like his grand nephew or something...

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lonechicken writes:
on Aug 14 2007 07:54 AM

Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season.

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Exode writes:
on Aug 14 2007 10:20 PM

Sure as Hell won't be Daredevil 2.

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ben_oblivion writes:
on Aug 15 2007 07:07 PM

His performance in Chasing Amy is still one of my favorite male love movie performances ever, but for some reason i see this really crappy movie in my head where ben affleck directs matt damon and casey affleck walking across a desert together. Or did that already happen?

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highdough writes:
on Aug 15 2007 10:33 PM

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You mean Gerry, but it was directed by this guy named Gus Van Sant. Maybe you've heard of him.

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rickderris writes:
on Sep 03 2007 09:31 AM

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fa sho
he was rilliant in the kevin smith films and evryone is allowed some mistakes in theiir careers

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