Ridley Scott’s first big movie, way back in 1977, was a Harvey Keitel/Keith Carradine flick titled The Duelists, about two French soldiers during the time of Napoleon who become lifelong enemies periodically dueling each other over a long-forgotten trivial grudge.Ridley Scott's new period drama 'The Last Duel' is epic in all proportions. The first trailer of the film was dropped on Tuesday and it promises to be an intense drama featuring actors Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer. What more! Scott's film's screenplay reunites Academy award winners and BFFs Damon and Ben Affleck as writers.
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It would be ironic if The Last Duel, featuring Matt Damon as a knight who ends up dueling a friend-turned-rival (Adam Driver) over a rape accusation made by Damon’s wife (Jodie Comer), was Scott’s last movie.
Set during the Hundred Years War, Carrouges is a respected knight known for his bravery and skill on the battlefield. Le Gris is a Norman squire whose intelligence and eloquence make him one of the most admired nobles in court. Two-time Oscar winner Ben Affleck is Count Pierre d’Alençon (sporting that buzzed about, yet still shockingly blonde hairdo).
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The trailer is shrewdly fashioned to make it look like Comer is the gloried protagonist, with her charge of sexual assault being framed as a defiant declaration of truth in a time and an act of courage. Whether or not she’s the actual star of the movie, I am reminded of the first teaser for Ben Affleck’s The Town, which positioned the film through the eyes of Rebecca Hall’s kidnapped bank teller rather than its actual lead, the bank robber (Affleck) who would later stalk and court his unknowing former captive. Speaking of which, Affleck is the film’s fourth major character, as this is somewhat being sold as a Damon/Affleck reunion both as actors and as screenwriters.
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Based on Eric Jager’s nonfiction book The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal and Trial by Combat in Medieval France, the screenplay comes courtesy of Affleck, Damon and Nicole Holofcener (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Enough Said, Friends With Money), whose participation earns my interest and curiosity. The picture looks scrumptious enough, and it’s scheduled for October 15 as a clear contender (alongside West Side Story in December) as Disney’s 20th Century Pictures chases Oscar glory. I’m sure the think piece-discourse will be interesting, but general audiences won’t notice or care. They didn’t care about the online discourse over Green Book, Joker or Bohemian Rhapsody either. If they want to see it, they’ll show up, period.
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The film is produced by Scott, Kevin J. Walsh (“Manchester by the Sea”), Jennifer Fox (“Nightcrawler”), Holofcener, Damon and Affleck with Kevin Halloran (“Ford v Ferrari”), Drew Vinton (“Promised Land”), Madison Ainley (“Justice League”) serving as executive producers.
Written by Nicole Holofcener, Affleck and Damon, the movie is based on actual events, unraveling the long-held assumptions about what happened between the two men. The project adapts Eric Jager’s book “The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France.”
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