Matt Damon is a talented actor, writer and director who should give us plenty to look forward to over the next 3 decades.
At age forty he has already received 3 Oscar nominations, winning Best Screenwriter along with his friend Ben Affleck for the movie "Good Will Hunting" in which Ben, Matt, and Robin Williams all played excellent roles.
Matt was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for this movie.
At the time I researched Matt Damon's preproduction movies as an actor he had listed 2 movies in preproduction as well as 3 more in post production.
Let us take a quick look at what we can expect to see from Matt in the next year or so.
In preproduction there were the movies "True Grit" (2010) and "Contagion" (2011).
"True Grit" is a remake of a 1969 John Wayne movie in which the 14 year old daughter of a man who was murdered enlists the help of lawmen to track down her father's killer.
Based on a Charles Portis' original novel and directed by Ethan and Joel Coen, this is to follow more closely the details as originally written.
Steven Spielberg is the producer so I have no doubt in my mind this will be a quality production.
The cast is very strong with Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin anchoring the lead roles and Hailee Steinfeld ("She's a Fox") playing the part of the 14 year old girl seeking justice.
Currently this is scheduled for a huge Christmas Day release on 12/25/2010.
"Contagion" is a movie I like to classify as an Apocalyptic Drama, or in other words, the possible end of the world.
I have seen it listed as an action / thriller by IMDB and in some articles as a bio-hazard drama.
It is being directed and produced by Steven Soderbergh.
The movie sports a very talented cast including Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Bruce Boxleitner, Megan Gallagher, Jude Law and another favorite of mine, Laurence Fishburne.
The plot centers around the release of a strain of Ebola by terrorists.
It starts off with the President of the United States (Bruce Boxleitner) being targeted by the virus but it spreads world-wide while a group of Doctors and Scientists attempt to find a way of stopping the destruction that is resulting from the release of the bio-hazard.
The one movie I found in post production when I did my search for Matt Damon's preproduction movies was what I suspect will be a film garnering many Oscar Nominations.
Why do I say this? Well Clint Eastwood is directing the movie, enough said.
"Hereafter" (12/2010) is a supernatural thriller that promises to be very entertaining with an excellent cast led by Matt Damon.
The plot involves three story lines.
Matt plays a factory worker that can talk to the dead, across the ocean in France is a journalist played by Cecile De France who has a near death experience and in London a drug addicted single mom (Lyndsey Marshal) loses a 10 year old son (a twin) in a car accident.
The three story lines eventually connect as answers are sought by all three to their individual circumstances.
This certainly promises to be an excellent vehicle for the talents of Clint Eastwood who seems to be at the center every year when the Oscars are handed out.
I need to conclude this article on Matt Damon's preproduction movies but I will be back with more articles on upcoming projects from my favorite actors, directors and producers.
At age forty he has already received 3 Oscar nominations, winning Best Screenwriter along with his friend Ben Affleck for the movie "Good Will Hunting" in which Ben, Matt, and Robin Williams all played excellent roles.
Matt was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for this movie.
At the time I researched Matt Damon's preproduction movies as an actor he had listed 2 movies in preproduction as well as 3 more in post production.
Let us take a quick look at what we can expect to see from Matt in the next year or so.
In preproduction there were the movies "True Grit" (2010) and "Contagion" (2011).
"True Grit" is a remake of a 1969 John Wayne movie in which the 14 year old daughter of a man who was murdered enlists the help of lawmen to track down her father's killer.
Based on a Charles Portis' original novel and directed by Ethan and Joel Coen, this is to follow more closely the details as originally written.
Steven Spielberg is the producer so I have no doubt in my mind this will be a quality production.
The cast is very strong with Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin anchoring the lead roles and Hailee Steinfeld ("She's a Fox") playing the part of the 14 year old girl seeking justice.
Currently this is scheduled for a huge Christmas Day release on 12/25/2010.
"Contagion" is a movie I like to classify as an Apocalyptic Drama, or in other words, the possible end of the world.
I have seen it listed as an action / thriller by IMDB and in some articles as a bio-hazard drama.
It is being directed and produced by Steven Soderbergh.
The movie sports a very talented cast including Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Bruce Boxleitner, Megan Gallagher, Jude Law and another favorite of mine, Laurence Fishburne.
The plot centers around the release of a strain of Ebola by terrorists.
It starts off with the President of the United States (Bruce Boxleitner) being targeted by the virus but it spreads world-wide while a group of Doctors and Scientists attempt to find a way of stopping the destruction that is resulting from the release of the bio-hazard.
The one movie I found in post production when I did my search for Matt Damon's preproduction movies was what I suspect will be a film garnering many Oscar Nominations.
Why do I say this? Well Clint Eastwood is directing the movie, enough said.
"Hereafter" (12/2010) is a supernatural thriller that promises to be very entertaining with an excellent cast led by Matt Damon.
The plot involves three story lines.
Matt plays a factory worker that can talk to the dead, across the ocean in France is a journalist played by Cecile De France who has a near death experience and in London a drug addicted single mom (Lyndsey Marshal) loses a 10 year old son (a twin) in a car accident.
The three story lines eventually connect as answers are sought by all three to their individual circumstances.
This certainly promises to be an excellent vehicle for the talents of Clint Eastwood who seems to be at the center every year when the Oscars are handed out.
I need to conclude this article on Matt Damon's preproduction movies but I will be back with more articles on upcoming projects from my favorite actors, directors and producers.
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