The Great Wall: Matt Damon knew the film was a disaster while filming it

Matt Damon has been in his share of hits and critically lauded efforts however even he can admit when one thing misses the mark. On this case, Damon is wanting again on the 2016 medieval epic, THE GREAT WALL. 5 years after the movie’s launch, the actor is admitting that he knew the movie was a catastrophe even whereas he was filming it.

Throughout his current look on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast to advertise his new movie Stillwater, Damon received fairly candid along with his ideas on the movie. The actor known as the movie a “catastrophe” and he says he knew the movie can be a failure throughout manufacturing. Damon mentioned, “I used to be like, that is precisely how disasters occur. It would not cohere. It would not work as a film.” 

Damon mentioned he actually knew issues have been going downhill when director Zhang Yimou began to make adjustments to please the Hollywood producers. When he began making these adjustments, Damon says Zhang sacrificed his preliminary imaginative and prescient for the movie and the film fell sufferer to the ever so pesky studio interference. Regardless of figuring out that movie would not be what he signed up for, Damon nonetheless attacked the challenge as a real skilled:

“I got here to contemplate that the definition of an expert actor; figuring out you are in a turkey and going, ‘Okay, I’ve received 4 extra months. It is the up at daybreak siege on Hamburger Hill. I’m undoubtedly going to die right here, however I am doing it.’ That is as shitty as you’ll be able to really feel creatively, I believe. I hope to by no means have that feeling once more.”

The Nice Wall facilities round a European mercenary warrior (Matt Damon) who’s imprisoned by imperial Chinese language forces throughout the Nice Wall of China after arriving looking for gunpowder. He ultimately joins forces with the Chinese language to assist fight an alien menace. The Nice Wall value a staggering $150 million to make and the movie solely pulled in $45.5 million domestically. Regardless of rebounding globally with a gross of $335 million worldwide, the movie was nonetheless thought-about a bomb with losses reportedly as excessive as $75 million when its advertising and marketing prices have been factored into the manufacturing finances. Critiques additionally weren’t very sort with the movie pulling in a 35% rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie additionally stars Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau.

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