If rumor is correct, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's next movie is...

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...a remake of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully they die when they jump off the cliff this time.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

this rules

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

And then a circus midget dances on their lifeless corpses to the strains of La Cucaracha.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

"Well...that oughta do it."

*Damon and Affleck explode, entire theater cheers in gratitude*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

So this hypothetical audience paid the entrance fee even though they hate Matt and Ben? That doesn't make sense, Ned.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

they should do Batman in Beantown

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Robin Williams as the Joker

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

So this hypothetical audience paid the entrance fee even though they hate Matt and Ben? That doesn't make sense, Ned.

You are overlooking the prospect of how many people might want to see the two of them bloodily expire onscreen.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Hating Matt Damon and Ben Affleck is so last season. I'll probably go and see this.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Last season? ILX isn't the WB, despite haunting similarities.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

ned is the dad from 7th heaven

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Ned is Carlos Mencia.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Very haunting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Ben's going to need Matt's help bad by the time this comes out. In his three 2006 movies he plays Hollywood Agent Jack Giamoro alongside Gina Gershon in Man About Town, Jack DuPree in Smokin' Aces - a Jeremy Piven vehicle about a Vegas performer/mob snitch and George Reeves in a movie about his murder. None scream comeback.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

My Name Is Ned

― Dan (Starring Jamie Pressley And Jason Lee) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

i was perversely hoping/fearing this was going to be a bill & ted "update" or "re-imagining". a butch & sundance remake is kind of a letdown in comparison.

― latebloomer: Let's just say I do for bullshit what Stonehenge did for Rocks (lat, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Makes sense, as William Goldman thought Good Will Hunting was brilliant.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I was hoping for a remake of The Graduate, in which Matt plays Benjamin and Ben plays Mr. Robinson.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

All the President's Men will follow, surely?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Someone Hollywood lefties need to do a Chicago Seven film someday, but God don't tell Matt & Ben.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Some, even. Not sure if Clooney could pull it off.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

"A Jeremy Piven vehicle"?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

i knew i would open this thread and the first three words would be "a remake of..."

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

All the President's Men will follow, surely?

Richard Dreyfuss as Harry Rosenfeld! Joshua Malina as Howard Simons! Sean Penn as Deep Throat! Cate Blanchett as Judy Hoback! Jude Law as Hugh Sloan! Amanda Peet as Debbie Sloan! Ethan Hawke as Don Segretti! Vincent D'Onofrio as Bernard Barker! James Gandolfini as James W. McCord! Gene Hackman as the voice of John Mitchell!

but who could possibly play Bradlee?! some amalgam of Sam Waterston and Jack Nicholson seems required.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

"A Jeremy Piven vehicle"?

As I said, doesn't scream comeback.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Smokin' Aces a.k.a. Ocean's 13: The Unluckiest Number

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile Matt's doing a Scorcese film, another directed by Robert DeNiro and The Bourne Triumphancy or whatever. Sounds like he's doing better.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

But in this version, there's a 20 minute scene of Ben boning Matt near the beginning, to put their relationship in context.

― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

The Trade, a film that tells the true tale of 2 New York Yankees pitchers who caused a national scandal by swapping wives in the sexually-free 1970s, has finally hit the big leagues. Ben Affleck has become attached to direct and potentially star in the Warner Bros film. (Let me say that for a Yankees fan like myself, it would be worth it just to see Ben Affleck, and possibly Matt Damon, forced to wear the New York pinstripes. That has always been considered a potential obstacle for two die-hard Boston Red Sox fans and renowned Yankees haters.) Teammates Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich stunned the country when they disclosed in spring training 1973 that they were trading wives. Peterson had fallen in love with Susanne Kekich and his teammate fell in love with Marilyn Peterson. Fritz and Susanne remain a couple till this day, while Mike and Marilyn drifted apart. Affleck and his former Live Planet partners Matt Damon and Sean Bailey have long been intrigued with the project, with Affleck eyeing the role of Peterson and Damon the role of Kekich.

― i know who the sockpuppet master of ilx is (velko), Friday, 19 February 2010 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

Sounds like a rather novel remake of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.

― Tuomas, Friday, 19 February 2010 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

ben affdick and matt damon are both yankee haters and are going out of their way to try to smear yankees image.they should both burn in hell.
Comment by dave quinones — February 19, 2010 @ 7:26 am Reply to this post

― i know who the sockpuppet master of ilx is (velko), Friday, 19 February 2010 20:11 (sixteen years ago)

sooooo bolivia = cocaine?

― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Friday, 19 February 2010 20:11 (sixteen years ago)

I think they should star in a remake of Hell Up in Harlem

― Ballistic, Friday, 19 February 2010 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

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