Ben Affleck and Matt Damon immediately shut down Good Will Hunting 2 pitch
Guess we'll never know what happens after he went to see about the girl. (Good!)
While we all love to check up on our favorite characters from time to time, some movies (many, many movies actually) simply do not need a sequel—especially films with (in this writer’s opinion) a perfect plot and a perfect ending like Good Will Hunting. We all know the best part of Ben Affleck’s character’s day is the 10 seconds he thinks he’ll never have to see Will again. Hasn’t the guy been through enough already?
Luckily, the minds behind the movie are as smart as the character they created and shut that possibility down before it was even really a possibility. (How could you possibly do a Good Will Hunting movie without the late, great Robin Williams? Or Elliott Smith, for that matter?) On the red carpet for the collaborators’ newest project, Air, Matt Damon revealed that Ben Affleck had received a “serious” pitch for a “flat-out sequel” to Good Will Hunting as recently as the past few days.
“I shit you not, that happened,” Damon said through laughter. “He told me today. It’s top of my mind because he’s like, ‘you’re not gonna believe what I heard.”