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Alright, here’s the tea: it’s been a whopping 24 years since Ben Affleck and Matt Damon gave us Good Will Hunting and that legendary ‘How do you like them apples?’ moment. They won an Oscar for it, no biggie, but then poof—no more writing collabs. So, what took these bros so long to team up again?
In ‘97, these two were broke and clueless while writing Good Will Hunting. Damon even joked that the process was so exhausting it scared them off from writing again. Add two busy schedules and their A-list Hollywood careers, and yeah, writing together just kept getting pushed aside.
Then came The Last Duel—a gritty, real-life historical drama directed by Ridley Scott, where a knight challenges his squire to a duel after the squire allegedly assaults the knight’s wife. Affleck and Damon couldn’t resist jumping back in, and this time, they brought Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said) into the mix for that fresh, female perspective. Damon admitted she had to craft Marguerite’s whole story from scratch and give her a voice that really brought it to life.
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