Matt Damon And Ben Affleck Starting Up Production Company

Back in 1997 Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were introduced to the movie industry as a matched pair, the actor and the buddy behind the scenes, the skinny one and the brawny one. Since then they’ve each had careers that spun off in wildly directions, with Damon going from blank pretty boy to action movie star, and Affleck recovering from a series of awful acting choices to become a pretty decent director.

Now, after all this time, Matt and Ben are talking about reuniting again, behind the scenes, anyway. The two are re-forming their production company, which started in 1997 under the name LivePlanet at Disney, but will probably go by a different name in its new life at Warner Bros.

Apparently the plan is for Damon to use this as a launchpad for a directing career. Damon has been taking notes as he’s worked with Steven Soderbergh, Martin Scorsese and Paul Greengrass in the last few years, and if he’s as quick a study as a director as he is an actor, he should be in fine shape. Expect a formal announcement of the production deal as early as this week. It will be interesting and exciting to see where Damon and Affleck’s careers go from here.