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** The original screenplay was about a brilliant math prodigy who gets recruited by the CIA and gets involved in a conspiracy.
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** The original screenplay was about a brilliant math prodigy who gets recruited by the CIA and gets involved in a conspiracy. Remnants of this could be seen in Will's interview with the NSA, and him refusing to participate in military code cracking.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/MattDamon and Creator/MinnieDriver dated briefly. Unbeknownst to Driver, Damon famously announced the relationship was over during a tv interview with Creator/OprahWinfrey.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/MattDamon and Creator/MinnieDriver dated briefly. Unbeknownst to Driver, Damon famously announced the relationship was over during a tv TV interview with Creator/OprahWinfrey.
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** Creator/BenAffleck and Creator/MattDamon first asked Creator/KevinSmith to direct. He declined because he felt the script deserved a better director and served as a producer instead. Creator/MichaelMann, Creator/StevenSoderbergh and Creator/MelGibson were also considered before Creator/GusVanSant was hired on.
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** Creator/BenAffleck and Creator/MattDamon first asked Creator/KevinSmith to direct. He declined because he felt the script deserved a better director and served as a producer instead.instead (Smith had been instrumental in bringing the script to Miramax after development at Castle Rock Entertainment didn't progress). Creator/MichaelMann, Creator/StevenSoderbergh and Creator/MelGibson were also considered before Creator/GusVanSant was hired on.
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* RealLifeRelative: Brothers Ben and Creator/CaseyAffleck as Chuckie and Morgan.
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* RealLifeRelative: Brothers Ben [[Creator/BenAffleck Ben]] and Creator/CaseyAffleck as Chuckie and Morgan.
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** Creator/CaseyAffleck ad-libbed most of his lines. This frustrated Damon, Affleck, and Van Sant during filming, but they later admitted that Casey's improvised lines were much funnier and better than what had been originally written for him.
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** Creator/CaseyAffleck Creator/BenAffleck's brother [[Creator/CaseyAffleck Casey]] ad-libbed most of his lines. This frustrated Damon, Affleck, Ben, and Van Sant during filming, but they later admitted that Casey's improvised lines were much funnier and better than what had been originally written for him.
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* ReferencedBy: In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E7ChickCancer Chick Cancer]]", Brian tells Stewie "it's not your fault" after Stewie and Olivia break up.
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* TestingTheEditors: The original script pitched to studio executives included an out-of-nowhere homoerotic SexScene between two characters who were never identified as gay. When Harvey Weinstein questioned why it was there, Creator/BenAffleck and Creator/MattDamon answered:
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* TestingTheEditors: The original script pitched to studio executives included an out-of-nowhere homoerotic SexScene sex scene between two characters who were never identified as gay. When Harvey Weinstein questioned why it was there, Creator/BenAffleck and Creator/MattDamon answered:
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* CastTheExpert: John Mighton, who plays the assistant math professor to Lambeau, is himself a mathematician.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Originally, Creator/BenAffleck was going to play Will and Creator/MattDamon would be Chuckie. If rumors are to be believed, they apparently flipped a coin to decide who got to play which part.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/MattDamon and Creator/MinnieDriver dated briefly. Unbeknownst to Driver, Damon famously announced the relationship was over during a tv interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/MattDamon and Creator/MinnieDriver dated briefly. Unbeknownst to Driver, Damon famously announced the relationship was over during a tv interview with Oprah Winfrey.Creator/OprahWinfrey.
* SparedByTheCut: Creator/GusVanSant wanted a scene where Chuckie to be killed in an on-the-job construction accident. When he read the new draft of the script, which incorporated the accident, he realized it was a terrible idea.
* SparedByTheCut: Creator/GusVanSant wanted a scene where Chuckie to be killed in an on-the-job construction accident. When he read the new draft of the script, which incorporated the accident, he realized it was a terrible idea.
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** Van Sant wanted a scene where Affleck's character Chuckie to be killed in an on-the-job construction accident. When he read the new draft of the script, which incorporated the accident, he realized it was a terrible idea.
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** Originally Affleck was going to play Will and Damon would be Chuckie. If rumors are to be believed, they apparently flipped a coin to decide who got to play which part.
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* {{Jossed}}: Rumors persisted for years that Creator/WilliamGoldman wrote the script. He publicly denied it at a WGA seminar in 2003, saying he suggested to emphasise the bond between Sean and Will but that was it. He states if he had written it, the "it's not your fault" scene wouldn't have been there.
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* WordOfGod: Rumors persisted for years that Creator/WilliamGoldman wrote the script. He publicly denied it at a WGA seminar in 2003, saying he suggested to emphasise the bond between Sean and Will but that was it. He states if he had written it, the "it's not your fault" scene wouldn't have been there.
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** Originally Affleck was going to play Will and Damon would be Chuckie.
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* TestingTheEditors: The original script pitched to studio executives included an out-of-nowhere homoerotic SexScene between two characters who were never identified as gay. When Harvey Weinstein questioned why it was there, Creator/BenAffleck and Creator/MattDamon answered:
-->"That's the scene that we wrote to find out whether guys in your job actually read the script, because every studio executive we went to ... no one brought that scene up, or maybe people thought it was a mistake or maybe nobody read it themselves... You're the only guy that brought it up. You get the movie."
-->"That's the scene that we wrote to find out whether guys in your job actually read the script, because every studio executive we went to ... no one brought that scene up, or maybe people thought it was a mistake or maybe nobody read it themselves... You're the only guy that brought it up. You get the movie."
