After greater than 1 / 4 century, the collaboration between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck remains to be going sturdy. 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 not too long ago launched a brand new manufacturing firm known as Artists Fairness, via which they will proceed to make new tasks collectively or individually.
They aren’t essentially seeking to replicate their previous successes nevertheless. On the pink carpet for Air, Affleck revealed that the pair had not too long ago been approached about making a sequel to Good Will Searching, their breakthrough 1997 movie which made their careers and received them the Oscar for Finest Authentic Screenplay.
“I s— you not — that occurred,” Damon informed Selection. “[Affleck] informed me immediately. He was like, ‘You’re not going to imagine 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 Searching, the story of a math prodigy who has didn’t dwell 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 Again, the place the title characters make their option to Hollywood and wander onto the set of Good Will Searching 2: Searching Season.
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Possibly Affleck and Damon simply realized they’ll by no means prime that scene with an actual sequel so why even attempt? Air opens in theaters on April 5.
