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Eastwood! Damon!

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (10)

Last year Matt Damon and Clint Eastwood teamed up to make Invictus, a drama set in South Africa and starring Damon as a rugby player. After District 9, any film set in South Africa should be required to end with an orgy of power armor combat, but since Invictus is about rugby that’s only natural anyway. From what I recall of the rules, rugby involves beer, power armor, hot wings, and virgin sacrifices.

Invictus is slated for a December release, but Damon and Eastwood apparently so enjoyed each others’ company that they are already starting work on another picture, set to begin filming before Invictus even hits theaters. Eastwood got a hold of a script by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon), a supernatural tale called Hereafter in which Damon will be starring and Eastwood will be directing.

Spielberg is getting one of the executive producer credits, and Eastwood one of the producer credits, though they’re spreading other such credits around to names buried in their shadows. Wouldn’t it be simpler (or at least less confusing) if they gave people different credits for different things, even if it’s just that Eastwood gets to be producer Mondays and Thursdays, while the other people split up the rest of the week? I know it doesn’t really matter, but the credit tends to stick to the biggest name out of the bunch, call it the Katamari Damacy principle of credit.

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What an interesting pairing.

Posted by: Cindy at September 17, 2009 9:53 PM

"Invictus" makes me think of "Wikus" (the W sounds like a V!), which makes me think of District 9. Damn I loved that movie.

I know that's going to bring all the "District 9 was overrated whah whah" comments out, but suck it, HATERS! That movie was awesome. And Wikus was awesome.

Dunno if I'm interested in a movie about rugby, but I might be interested in a movie about South Africa. . .

Posted by: MM at September 17, 2009 10:28 PM

A glory days picture of an aging movie star. The word "Heareafter." The Summer of Death. A word that looks like "Damn!"

Let's just say that a new movie was not what I initially thought this was going to be about.

Posted by: SaBrina at September 18, 2009 1:48 AM

@MM

Seconding the District 9 love - I saw it the other night and it is in my top 3 movies of the year...

(along with In the Loop & Anti-Christ, which is strange company)

Posted by: missh at September 18, 2009 7:11 AM

Yeah, jumping on the D9 bandwagon. Three viewings, and story still holds up to the "replace Sci Fi conceit with true dramatic conceit and see if it works" test.

Not being harsh, but it seemed like a SciFi version of Blood Diamond. Again, not being harsh...it's just that I like how it compares and holds up to real films. (Try doing the same thing with Transformers and a real Drama. Yeah, not working, is it?)

That said, Damon and Eastwood making a movie sounds as good as peanut butter and women. No wonder there's going to be seconds.

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at September 18, 2009 9:37 AM

You know you're old when the mention of rugby in South Africa raises the hackles. I keep forgetting we're all friends now. Still, having gone to a University where rugby was worshiped like an Incan God, I still hate the fucking sport.

Posted by: PaddyDog at September 18, 2009 9:53 AM

I want to be interested in this movie since I lurve both Eastwood and Damon, but I'm having a hard time getting excited over what appears to be a sports movie. With those two involved I would expect that it would be more than just a rugby movie, but I dunno. I'll reserve judgement.

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Posted by: happyone11 at September 18, 2009 12:13 PM

When I saw the title Invictus it reminded me of the poem. So, allow me to share with you.

Invictus

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

-William Ernest Henley

For some reason I feel like the movie is going to seriously suck though.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at September 18, 2009 6:08 PM

That poem seems to fit the rugby movie.
Watch one match, just one. I gurantee someone's gonna be bleeding inside the first 10 minutes...and they'll be smiling.

Posted by: Four Eyes at September 19, 2009 7:32 AM

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