Matt Damon‘s acting hiatus announcement doesn’t seem to have lasted too long. As per the latest reports, the actor appears to have joined a new action movie within days of his teasing an acting hiatus.
According to Deadline, Damon is set to grace the screens next in a fun cameo in the Matthew Vaughn-produced irreverent action-comedy Stuntnuts. Also attached to the film is Cristiano Ronaldo’s film and TV joint venture, UR MARV, which will mark the Portuguese soccer star’s first official movie-producing credit.
Just earlier this month, talking to GQ, Damon was asked whether he would “take a breather” after the sparkling success of The Odyssey. To this, he replied, “I didn’t think I was going to work.”
At the same time, he added, “And then the Daniels called me, and they had this project that was so out there, and it was such a Daniels movie, and it’s so different from anything I’ve ever been able to do that I couldn’t pass it up.”
However, the Good Will Hunting star also confirmed that he will “take a long time off” after it’s done filming.
What is Matthew Vaughn’s Stuntnuts about?
Stuntnuts follows two stunt performers who take on a dangerous Hollywood production to save their community gym. But they soon find themselves caught up in increasingly chaotic stunts and clashes between the movie’s leading men.
As per the film’s official storyline, Stuntnuts “follows two gifted stunt performers who take jobs on a massive Hollywood blockbuster in a desperate bid to save their community gym. But as the production spirals spectacularly out of control, fueled by increasingly dangerous stunts and the dueling egos of its leading men, Thor star Chris Hemsworth and Oscar winner Sam Rockwell (playing hilariously heightened versions of themselves), saving the gym may prove to be the least of their problems.”
Damien Walters is directing the movie, which will feature stunt artists Bobby Holland Hanton (Hemsworth’s regular double), Greg Townley (double for Tom Holland in Spider-Man), Paul Lowe, and Haruka Oshima.
