Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are a real-deal Hollywood fairytale: childhood pals who made it to the Oscars stage (winning Best Original Screenplay together in 1998 for Good Will Hunting), with each becoming a movie star in their own right.
Every few years they’ll circle back to one another, co-starring in movies like Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel (2021) or sports biopic Air (2023), and they’ve recently established their own production company, Artists Equity, to ensure their crews can secure a bonus if the project is successful. It’s an endangered tradition in Hollywood production. A “Mattfleck” picture, then, has its own aura: a kind of rumpled decency and a straight-talking, Bostonian charm, best served with a side of Dunkin’ Donuts.
