Every time I watch Good Will Searching, it nonetheless catches me abruptly to see Kevin Smith’s title within the opening credit as an govt producer – despite the fact that he was the one who personally delivered it to Miramax. However his credit score might have been in a wholly totally different spot, as he was as soon as poached to direct the eventual Oscar winner. How do ya like them apples?
Kevin Smith’s ties to each Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are well-known, however he wished nothing to do with directing them in Good Will Searching. As he advised Folks, “The primary query that I used to be requested by Ben and Matt and the Miramax of us was, ‘Do you wanna direct it?’ I feel all of them requested that with clenched assholes hoping that I might say no. Naturally, I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, no. If I had been to direct this, I might simply flip round to Ben and Matt the entire time and say, ‘Is that this what you noticed once you wrote it?’”
Kevin Smith as an alternative instructed that stars and co-writers Affleck and Damon workforce as much as direct Good Will Searching effectively, though the heads rapidly shot that concept down. “I used to be advised that the lunatics wouldn’t be operating that specific asylum, so the seek for a director started at Miramax.” Finally the gig went to Gus Van Sant, who landed his first Finest Director Oscar nod. (The movie would earn a complete of 9 nominations, successful for Affleck and Damon’s screenplay and Finest Supporting Actor for Robin Williams.)
Kevin Smith had solely simply been exhibiting some (momentary) maturity in his movies, with Chasing Amy hitting Sundance just a few months earlier than cameras rolled on Good Will Searching. And whereas we love Smith, he was not the man to direct that sort of film. Actually, he pulled off the extent of something prefer it with the Good Will Searching 2: Searching Season bit in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again.
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