After greater than 1 / 4 century, the collaboration between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck continues to be going robust. The pair have a model new film headed to theaters, Air, concerning the creation of the unique Nike Air Jordan sneaker, which Affleck directed and which each starred in and produced. The pair additionally just lately launched a brand new manufacturing firm referred to as Artists Equity, by way of which they will proceed to make new initiatives collectively or individually.
They should not essentially trying to replicate their previous successes nevertheless. On the purple carpet for Air, Affleck revealed that the pair had just lately been approached about making a sequel to Good Will Hunting, their breakthrough 1997 movie which made their careers and gained them the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
“I s— you not — that happened,” Damon instructed Variety. “[Affleck] told me today. He was like, ‘You’re not going to believe what I heard.’ This was a flat-out sequel. I don’t get it.”
It’s not a sequel we’re going to pursue,” Affleck added.
The very notion of doing a sequel to Good Will Hunting, the story of a math prodigy who has did not stay as much as his potential due to his struggles together with his traumatic previous, is so absurd it was the topic of an prolonged sequence in Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the place the title characters make their approach to Hollywood and wander onto the set of Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season.
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Maybe Affleck and Damon simply realized they’ll by no means high that scene with an actual sequel so why even strive? Air opens in theaters on April 5.
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