Matt Damon Opens Up on 'Avatar' Offer and Missing Out on $250 Million: I 'Desperately Wanted to Work' With James Cameron but 'Couldn't Leave' Bourne
,” which remains the highest-grossing movie of all time with $2.9 billion worldwide . Damon turned down the film despite an offer that included receiving 10% of the box office back end, which would’ve meant a $250 million payday for him. Duringwith Chris Wallace, the “Avatar” offer got brought up again and prompted Damon to explain his thought process behind tossing it off.
“I had a contract,” Damon said. “I was in the middle of shooting the Bourne movie and I knew that we were going to need work at the end and I had to get it all the way to the finish line and I would have to leave the movie kind of early and leave them in the lurch a little bit and I didn’t want to do that. I desperately wanted to work with Cameron. I mean, because he worked so rarely.”
“I told John Krasinski, we were writing this little movie a long time ago called ‘Promised Land’ and we were in my kitchen and it was a Saturday morning and we were on a break and I tell him about ‘Avatar,’ and he launches himself out of the chair,” Damon said. “He starts pacing the kitchen, he goes, ‘Nothing in your life would be different today if you had done that movie, except you and I would be having this conversation in space.'”Damon’s decision.
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