Good Will Hunting was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The two of them grew up together in Chambride, Ma and took drama classes with one another. Once college came around they went their separate ways. Matt Damon went to Harvard University, and Ben Affleck attended Occidental College in Califorina. The film first started to be written in Matt Damon’s fifth year at Harvard. Damon was in a play writing class and one project was to write a one act play but Damon decided to write and turn in a movie that was 40 pages long instead . Damon showed Ben the script he had wrote for his class and asked if he would help write it. The was the two came up with a some scenes is pretty interesting. Allfleck states ” We would improvise and drink like six or twelve beers or whatever and record it with a tape recorder.” The duo wrote a fantastic script that was finished in 1994. They hand over the script to an agent Patrick Whitesell who reluctantly took it because “Usually when you get a script from actors you don’t have high expectations”. Whitesell read the script and was blow away by it. The film was then picked up by director Gus Van Stant and producer Chris Moore. Good Will Hunting made its premiere in 1997 and the film has gotten nothing but fantastic reviews. After almost two decades Affleck’s and Damon’s story will continue to entertain audiences everywhere.
Here’s an interview with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck explaining how the movie came together.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2013/01/good-will-hunting-oral-history/3/
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