They "wrote" a script that generated a quarter-billion in revenues and no one signed them to write and produce a new project? They both decided that it would be better to get paid going forward solely as actors in other people's projects instead of getting paid as actors, writers and producers all at once?
I wonder who actually wrote Good Will Hunting and why it would be pawned off as the work of two up to that point relatively obscure young actors.
I note that there is a guy named Aaron Stockard who was interviewed a bunch of times back in 1997 as Affleck and Damon's high school buddy and LA roommate before the two of them became famous.
Stockard now has two credits in Hollywood: as coscreenwriter of Gone Baby Gone and The Town - which are also Affleck's only movie writing credits since GWH and which were written a decade after GWH.
So this guy hung out in LA for 12 years as the close buddy of Damon and Affleck before he got a single credit on any project?
Usually stars of the caliber they were back in 2000 could have gotten their friend some kind of work before 2007.
And Stockard goes from zero to being the author of two highly-polished and successful scripts in a two year period?
There's a story in there someplace.
It’s certainly suspicious. They bristled at some questions they got about that back then. Not to mention the fact that GWH was cliche-addled swill.