Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reunited for their first screenwriting collaboration since their record-breaking Good Will Hunting Oscar win for Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, a medieval epic co-starring the two Bostonian A-listers and a pair of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, Jodie Comer and Adam Driver.
Between them, the cast of The Last Duel has a bunch of exciting projects on the horizon. Comer is reprising her role as Villanelle, Affleck is reprising his role as Batman, and Damon will play Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves for Christopher Nolan.
Adam Driver - House Of Gucci (November 24, 2021)
Adam Driver clearly had a good time working with Ridley Scott on The Last Duel, because he’s in his next movie, too. Like The Last Duel, House of Gucci is based on historical events – but its style looks a lot slicker and groovier than the somber tone of the medieval epic.
Set to arrive on November 24, House of Gucci stars Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider who marries into the super-rich Gucci family and descends into a dark web of betrayal, revenge, and murder. Driver plays Maurizio Gucci, the husband she supposedly had killed.
Matt Damon - Thor: Love And Thunder (July 8, 2022)
After handling the complicated emotions of The Last Duel, Matt Damon will find himself back in fun territory in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder. Damon will reprise his role as the Asgardian actor who plays Loki alongside Luke Hemsworth as the actor playing Thor and Sam Neill as the actor playing Odin. Melissa McCarthy is also joining the cast as an actor playing Hela.
The main plot of Love and Thunder will see Thor passing on his mantle to his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, played by Natalie Portman. The Guardians of the Galaxy are set to appear and Valkyrie will search the cosmos for a queen to help her rule New Asgard. The movie is scheduled for release on July 8, 2022.
Jodie Comer - Killing Eve Season 4 (2022)
After playing her first major roles on the big screen this year in Free Guy and The Last Duel, Jodie Comer is returning to the small screen to reprise the role that made her an icon: charming assassin Villanelle in Killing Eve.
While no specific airdate is set, Killing Eve has been renewed for a fourth season that will premiere in 2022. With Laura Neal filling in as head writer, season 4 will be the final season that concludes the series.
Ben Affleck - Deep Water (January 14, 2022)
After co-writing and co-starring in The Last Duel, Ben Affleck will be seen alongside Ana de Armas in Deep Water, an erotic psychological thriller directed by Fatal Attraction’s Adrian Lyne based on a Patricia Highsmith novel.
The story follows a married couple whose relationship is on the rocks. The husband and wife enter a series of mind games that start claiming the lives of people around them. Deep Water will be released on January 14, 2022.
Adam Driver - 65 (April 22, 2022)
Adam Driver tends to star in movies about serious subject matter like BlacKkKlansman, Marriage Story, and indeed The Last Duel. But the former Star Wars villain is returning to the realm of genre cinema to star in 65, a sci-fi thriller written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the creators of A Quiet Place.
Produced by Sam Raimi, 65 will focus on an astronaut crash-landing on an uncharted planet and slowly learning that he’s not alone. The movie will be released on April 22, 2022.
Matt Damon - Oppenheimer (July 21, 2023)
Following the critical and commercial disappointment of his spy-fi thriller Tenet, Christopher Nolan is hard at work on his next project, Oppenheimer, a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer focused on the creation of the atom bomb.
Regular Nolan collaborator Cillian Murphy will play Oppenheimer himself, while Emily Blunt has been cast as his wife Katherine. Matt Damon, who played a minor role in Interstellar, and Robert Downey, Jr. have been cast as Leslie Groves and Lewis Strauss, respectively. Shot in IMAX and 65mm, Oppenheimer will be released on July 21, 2023.
Ben Affleck - Hypnotic (TBD)
Robert Rodriguez has been in development on the sci-fi actioner Hypnotic since way back in 2018. The movie is finally coming together with Ben Affleck leading an ensemble cast that also includes Alice Braga and William Fichtner.
The plot will see a detective investigating a series of heists that are theoretically impossible while being drawn into a web of intrigue involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.
Jodie Comer - Kitbag (TBD)
The next project that Ridley Scott will take on after the double whammy of The Last Duel and House of Gucci is Kitbag, a historical epic chronicling the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte through his relationship with his wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
Joaquin Phoenix will play Napoleon, while The Last Duel’s Jodie Comer will play Joséphine. As of yet, Kitbag doesn’t have an official release date.
Adam Driver - White Noise (2022)
In addition to reteaming with Ridley Scott, Adam Driver is reteaming with writer-director Noah Baumbach to star in White Noise, an adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. Driver will play a professor of Hitler studies whose life is turned upside down by a catastrophic train crash. Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle have been cast in supporting roles.
Like Baumbach’s last two movies, The Meyerowitz Stories and Marriage Story, White Noise will be released on Netflix. It doesn’t have an official release date, but it’s set to arrive sometime in 2022.
Ben Affleck - The Flash (November 4, 2022)
On November 4, 2022, the DCEU’s long-delayed Flash solo movie will finally hit theaters. Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen will take the spotlight as the Flash’s attempts to undo his mother’s death will have multiversal ramifications.
While this is the Flash’s movie, DC fans are more excited about the other heroes who will show up in supporting roles. Both Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton are returning as Batman, while Sasha Calle will debut as the DCEU’s Supergirl.