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Matt will be interviewed in the Miami Herald on Sunday about a recent taping of Journey to Planet Earth - a preview is at Glenn Garvin's TV blog, and also here:
Man, we can't do anything right around here. Even our paparazzi are lazy and second-rate. Interviewing Matt Damon for a story that will appear Sunday, I asked him what it's like living on Miami Beach (as he has for the past four years) instead of Los Angeles where the movie and television industry is located. His answer: Great!
"Here, I don't have to deal with any of the nonsense," he said. "All the paparazzi live in L.A. There are guys waiting outside the gates to your house 24/7. But here, my wife and I figured out pretty quickly, it's only on the weekends, because Miami paparazzi have day jobs. They can't hang around all the time. So we just never go out on the weekends. The only time I leave is to go jogging.
"One of the guys stopped me once and said, 'Can't you do something besides jog? I've got like 20,000 pictures of you jogging.' And I said, 'Man, that's the whole point.'"
I spent an afternoon this week hanging around the Coconut Grove studio where Damon was taping the narration for an episode of the PBS environmental series Journey To Planet Earth. For more of his opinions -- on spies, torture, the war in Iraq and nymphomaniac fish -- check out Sunday's Miami Herald.
Photographer Greg Williams has uploaded a series of photos from the Morocco set of Bourne Ultimatum here, including:
Matt's quoted in the February 2009 issue of Empire (UK) magazine from the Morocco set of Green Zone talking about Paul Greengrass' plans for the movie:
"Paul wants this to be a big mainstream movie. He wants people to see it."
Emma Roberts talked about some early encounters with Matt on last week's Jay Leno appearance - her quotes and a photo are at Just Jared.
Bourne producer Pat Crowley talked about the possible Bourne sequel in an interview Wednesday at the Daily Telegraph. Matt has said previously that he won't sign on to the movie until he sees the finished script.
Crowley's latest project will be the fourth Bourne film, with Damon already agreeing to reprise his role.
"We've got a treatment but we don't have a script yet and it's a question of whether we'll shoot it this year or next year."
Paramount will not be exercising the option to make Torso/Ness with director David Fincher, and so the project is currrently shelved. Matt was rumored to play the role of Eliot Ness.
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Thanks Cheryl, and thanks also for being about the only one commenting these days! The Miami Herald interview is now up, and Matt also confirms the rumor of a few days ago (which I thought could not be true) that he's doing the Bourne sequel after Green Zone's now up to $125 million in production costs. The interview is below, where Matt talks about not attending the inauguration and his likely participation in the Good Shepherd sequels: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/v-fullstory/story/869216.htmlOn Green Zone, Moriarty (Drew McWeeny) wrote recently about how it's on his list of 'question mark' films of the year, with the following wary comments (why is Matt always involved with difficult shoots): "Green Zone" Oh, man, the stories I've heard about this one. Paul Greengrass is a very good director. No doubt about it. World class, in my opinion. And I hear chaos is part of his process. I hear he thrives on that sort of energy, especially when trying to put together a film about life inside U.S.-occupied Iraq, starring Matt Damon and a whole lot of real military guys. It sounds like the first round of shooting was just a warm-up, a way to learn what they really needed to make it a movie, and there's another round that's either about to happen or that just happened. Because there's so much uncertainty about that first round of shooting, this one has to end up on a list of big gambles for the year. When you trust your film to chance, as Greengrass does in some ways, you're sort of playing dice by definition.
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January 26th, 2009 01:50 pm (UTC)
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Lots of interesting information to chew over. That link you posted of Matt being accosted in a nightclub was a weird read. She kept going on about how nice she was, but sounded very aggressive bordering on rude to me.
Gonna leave the politics alone (not my strength), but any opinion, whoever holds it seems to inflame people to an insane degree these days. I guess the art of genuine debate is officially dead; Matt certainly didn't help his own cause (though I'm sure he doesn't care)by calling that guy at the New York Times an idiot, reverting to name calling is very, very childish; that sort of behaviour should have been left beind in the playground.
I can't believe Green Zone has production costs of $125 million. With the world's financial systems on life support where could they raise that kind of money? How could the studio ever recoup their investment, and this is before marketing the movie has even begun, which would add many millions more to the budget, it would have to be a huge worldwide hit, and if it follows the trajectory of every other movie about Iraq that probably won't happen.
The interviewer seems to have caught him in a feisty mood, a fascinating read.
Thanks
Marcia
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