Ridley Scott is taking up the task of directing The Last Duel, which is a “revenge story” based on an Eric Jager novel. Plans are set in place for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to star. Damon, Affleck, and Nicole Holofcener are working on a scrip that is almost done. If this movie does move into the next phase of actually happening, it will be the first script that Damon and Affleck have collaborated on since their [essential] break-out movie Good Will Hunting.
Fox has owned the rights to a live-action adaptation for some time and it will be interesting if it is under the Disney umbrella, considering the tone of the movie. Below is the description provided by Deadline:
It is a revenge story of two best friends. Damon and Affleck will play them. The main characters are the Norman knight Jean de Carrouges and the squire Jacques Le Gris. They were friends. One goes to war and returns to accuse Le Gris of raping his wife Margerite de Carrouges. No one will believe the woman, and the soldier appeals to the king of France to undo a decision handed down by Count Pierre d’Anencon, which favored Le Gris. The decision handed down is that the two men fight a duel to the death. The one left alive would be declared the winner as a sign of God’s will. And if Jean de Carrouges loses, his wife will be burned at the stake for punishment for her false accusation.
Scott made his feature directorial debut on The Duellists, a 1977 drama starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel.
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