10 Forgotten Matt Damon Roles

We Bought a Zoo

Matt Damon is one of the macrocosm ’s fine actors , and he ’s worked with some of the heavy directors in Hollywood – Ridley Scott , Christopher Nolan , Steven Soderbergh , Clint Eastwood . He made his name withGood Will Hunting , a drama that he co - spell for himself to asterisk in and ended up winning an Oscar for it at a disc - break youthful historic period .

He has an unbelievable dead body of oeuvre . But not every flick can beThe Martian . Not every character can be Jason Bourne . course , in any motion picture star ’s career , there are go to be some halt duck ( and some hidden gems ) . Here are 10 Forgotten Matt Damon Roles .

Bob Tenor

Top of the list of motion picture that should n’t have run past the basic premiss stage , stay on Youis a gross - out comedy about the wacky misadventures of two get married twins play by Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear . One of them want to be a movie star . Yes , it is as bad as it sounds .

The Farrelly brothers , one of whom just won two Oscars for his study onGreen Book , directed the movie . They ’re best make out for hit comedy likeDumb and DumberandThere ’s Something About Mary , but this one lack the mark .

Management

Terry Gilliam is a extremely acclaim director , but he ’s never really had a boastful hit . That ’s why A - inclination actors who take roles in his films often go under the microwave radar as scarce anyone actually end up seeing the movie . The Zero Theoremis the third part in Gilliam ’s unofficial “ Orwellian triptych , ” which also containsBraziland12 Monkeys , and it stars Christoph Waltz as a guy trying to figure out a mathematical formula to learn the meaning of life .

As one might have a bun in the oven , it ’s a trippy ride . Matt Damon plays Management , a use that originally had Al Pacino attach to it . He delivers a great soliloquy about how humanity ’s penury to believe in a god makes this life nonmeaningful . Very interesting clobber .

Scott Thorson

It ’s tough for a made - for - TV movie to be genuinely memorable . Even if it ’s on HBO , it ’s still a made - for - TV movie . A few old age ago , Steven Soderbergh directedBehind the Candelabra , a Liberace biopic starring Michael Douglas as the iconic showy pianist and Matt Damon as his partner Scott Thorson .

It ’s a brilliant movie , conquer not only the life of Liberace , but his purport , too . It could ’ve been quite successful if it had a theatrical release , but unfortunately , the big motion picture studio are n’t run by the most progressive of mass and they turned down the script for being “ too gay . ”

Cale Tucker

Titan A.E.is an animated post - apocalyptic sci - fi adventure with a champion - studded voice cast include Drew Barrymore , Bill Pullman , Janeane Garofalo , Nathan Lane , and John Leguizamo . Matt Damon plays the lead role of Cale Tucker , an underdog everyman hero .

Sadly , although the movie has incredible visuals and a gripping plot , it was a horrific box office bankruptcy , result in a $ 100 million loss for twentieth Century Fox . Joss Whedon was one of the writer who worked on the film . It still has yet to observe a cult hearing , but it will . Its animation is too gorgeous for it not to eventually notice a fan foot .

Donny

In the hysterical , yet little - known comedyEuroTrip , Matt Damon makes a cameo appearance as Donny , the guy who the lead persona Scotty ’s girlfriend has been cheat on him with . He ’s a thug rock musician who rifle up on stage at a party Scotty is attending after he found out about his girlfriend ’s unfaithfulness and sings a song call in “ Scotty Does n’t Know ” about all the things he did with Scotty ’s girl without his knowledge .

Damon ended up appearing in the movie because he knew writer - directors Jeff Schaffer , Alec Berg , and David Mandel from college and happened to be shootingThe Brothers Grimmin the same city they were shootingEuroTrip . motion picture magic .

William Garin

A couple of years ago , some Chinese photographic film producer cast Matt Damon in a big - budget monster movie about the firedrake who threaten the Great Wall of China ( not the Mongol invaders – dragons ) to give it some Hollywood appeal . When Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Oscars that year , he called it “ a Taiwanese ponytail movie . ”

The Great Wall ’s natural action lay out spell are exquisite , with spectacular special effects and visceral direction . Unfortunately , this comes at the expense of a substantial story . One proficient thing to note about the movie is that , although it star Damon as a white booster in medieval China , it is not write as a “ white savior ” narrative .

Benjamin Mee

We Bought a Zooisn’t a bad moving picture . In fact , it ’s an okay movie . It ’s just that it ’s too mediocre to be memorable . It ’s the story of a distich , wager by Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson , who corrupt a menagerie and then endeavor to get the zoo in act upon order in fourth dimension for the reopening .

The trouble with that premiss is that it sounds shopworn and routine before you ’ve even started watch it . Cameron Crowe convinced Damon to take the lead role by station him a copy of the sure-enough Scots movieLocal Heroand a CD of his own musical compositions along with the script .

Bill the Krill

Happy Feet , the inspiring taradiddle of a tap - dancing penguin was acclaimed by critic and danced its path to a worldwide loge office haul of $ 384 million , was a huge hit . The 2011 sequel , however , was not . On a budget of $ 135 million , it grossed just $ 150 million at the global box office .

This fiscal disappointment go to the closure of theater director George Miller ’s production caller . Matt Damon played a krill named Bill – Bill the Krill – who was the effective champion of Will the Krill , play by Brad Pitt , who desire to hasten the Doomberg , the great berg that serve as the film ’s villain .

Steve Butler

In these post - A Quiet Placedays , a film written and produced by John Krasinski would get more tending . However , back in 2012 , less fuss was made . He conceivedPromised Land , a play about fracking , and developed a story with author Dave Eggers before bring the project to Matt Damon .

Damon and Krasinski write the screenplay together and Damon planned to make the movie his directorial unveiling . However , in the end , hisGood Will Huntingdirector Gus Van Sant sat in the managing director ’s chair . The movie has been criticized for its puddle views on the fracking issue , but its heart is in the right place .

Roy Miller

For whatever grounds , Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon only manage to get successful granulose thrillers when Damon is playing Jason Bourne in them . They play the same intensity , visual genius , and wonky camera workplace toGreen Zone , but Damon was play Roy Miller , so it flopped .

The movie ’s trouble was that it was extremely politicized , being about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and all , and it had an tremendous budget of $ 100 million . $ 100 million pic ca n’t be political – they need to have the widest collection possible and nothing divides an audience more than government . As a result , this movie was a boxful office dud and was quickly forget .