Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.Photo: Todd Williamson/Getty
Ben AffleckandMatt Damonmight be planning to write more together following their upcoming movie collaboration,The Last Duel.
The two friends previously won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1997 forGood Will Hunting. On Tuesday, the trailer forThe Last Duel,which they co-wrote together alongside Nicole Holofcener,debuted online.
Despite previously winning the Oscar, Damon said the process of writingGood Will Hunting"was so inefficient" compared toThe Last Duel.
“You know, because we didn’t really understand structure so we wrote thousands of pages. … We’d be like, ‘Well, what if this happened?’ and then we’d just write different scenes,” Damon recalled. “So, we had all these kind of disparate scenes, and then we kind of tried to jam them together into something that looked like a movie.”
The Last Duelis more “about perspective,” Damon said. “There are two knights and then there’s Lady Marguerite. So Ben and I wrote the male perspectives and Nicole Holofcener wrote the female perspective. That’s kind of the architecture of that movie.”
Matt Damon inThe Last Duel.walt disney studios
Ben Affleck inThe Last Duel.walt disney studios
With both Affleck and Damon making films for 30 years, theBourne Ultimatumstar said the two learned “something about structure along the way and the process went along a lot faster.”
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The Last Duelis in theaters on Oct. 15.
source: people.com
