Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Nana Gabbana
On President Obama’s joke about him at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner:
“I have to say, it was pretty funny,” he says, getting in his own dig: “Whoever came up with it, it was a terrific joke.”
On walking away from the ‘Bourne’ franchise:
“If you look at the first three movies, we kind of pounded that idea of identity and amnesia into the ground. We really got everything out of it that we could. So to reboot it, we need to come up with something completely new,” he says, explaining why the eleven-month turnaround that Universal Pictures wanted didn’t feel doable.
On Tony Gilroy, the writer/director behind the ‘Bourne’ films (including the fourth):
“The word on ‘Bourne’ was that it was supposed to be a turkey. It’s very rare that a movie comes out a year late, has four rounds of reshoots, and it’s good. So Tony Gilroy arbitrated against himself to not be the writer with sole credit… to have another guy take the bullet with him.” (Actually Damon may have gotten his chronology wrong—one source says Herron initiated the credit dispute, but that Gilroy didn’t oppose sharing credit.)
But Matt wasn’t too impressed with the ‘Bourne Ultimatum,’ which Tony made a deal to write just one draft.
“It’s really the studio’s fault for putting themselves in that position. I don’t blame Tony for taking a boatload of money and handing in what he handed in. It’s just that it was unreadable. This is a career-ender. I mean, I could put this thing up on eBay and it would be game over for that dude. It’s terrible. It’s really embarrassing. He was having a go, basically, and he took his money and left.”
Ouch. You can read Matt’s entire interview in the January issue of GQ, which hits newsstands December 20, 2011.
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