Penned by a duo of then - comparatively unknown writers and bring out with a pocket-sized budget , Good Will Huntingproved to be a surprising success at the box office . It also garnered several Oscar nominating speech , with the late Robin Williams picking up the booty for Best Supporting Actor .
Also taking home Oscar amber for the movie were screenwriter Ben Affleck and Matt Damon . Before their script bring in them an Academy Award apiece , however , it was proving tricky to get someone to commit to make their picture show .
Not that there was a deficiency of interest . Damon and Affleck had several studio require , and several had made the distich offers . Yet they opted to go with Miramax , then function — with his sidekick — by producer Harvey Weinstein .
So why did they choose him over a large studio ? Weinstein explain all on the U.K.‘sThe Graham Norton Show .
" Everyone in Hollywood want Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and the motion-picture show " , he recall . " In the meeting with them , I say ' I only have one really big note on the script . About page 60 , the two lede , both straight valet de chambre , have a sex picture . What the hell is that ? ' "
Fair motion , consider that up until that item , there had been nothing vaguely romantic about their kinship .
Turns out there was a very specific strategy behind Damon and Affleck ’s apparent non sequitur . " That ’s the scene " , they explain to Weinstein , " we wrote to see if guys like you read the script , because every studio executive director we belong to had n’t read it . You ’re the only guy rope who brought it up , so you get the pic " .
Good Will Huntingwould go on to gross over $ 200 million worldwide , reportedly costing just $ 10 million to make .
This account originally come out onour UK land site .
