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...that time Damon had taken steps to ensure that Hollywood would take notice of more than his acting. With Stallone-like hubris, he and best friend Ben Affleck--another hot actor, who starred in Chasing Amy and grew up two blocks away from Damon--wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting, based on a play Damon had started writing as a Harvard student. (He still has two semesters to go for his degree.) Damon and Affleck attached themselves to the project as stars. The script--about the struggles of a young working-class math genius in South Boston--sold...
...really serious creative differences with them" is all he says about the Castle Rock experience. But other sources close to the movie say Damon and Affleck became dismayed when they realized Castle Rock never intended to show the script to an established director but instead planned to hand it off to Castle Rock partner Andrew Scheinman, whose only previous directing credit was the forgettable 1994 movie Little Big League. The young actors returned their material to the marketplace, where Miramax bought it from Castle Rock. Commitments from director Van Sant and co-star Robin Williams made the project happen...
...Affleck and Matt Damon wrote and star in the movie. Minnie Driver and Robin Williams also appear in the film...
...Affleck is best known for his roles as Shannon Hamilton in Mallrats and as Holden McNeil in Chasing Amy, both written and directed by Kevin Smith. Damon played Ilario in Courage Under Fire...
Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she's a lesbian. Well, nobody's perfect. And, indeed, she's not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden's passion. This makes him feel terrific--the superstud who has conquered the unconquerable. Except that Banky--who has some homoerotic issues of his own to sort out--discovers otherwise. Alyssa has had male lovers in the past. This devastates Holden...