Matt Damon in Talks for Daniels’ New Sci-Fi Pic

(Left) Matt Damon in ‘The Rip’. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix © 2025. (Right) Daniel Quan and Daniel Scheinert pose backstage with the Oscar® for Directing during the live ABC telecast of the 95th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023. Credit/Provider: Michael Yada / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.

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Matt Damon is close to starring in directing team Daniels’ latest.
The untitled sci-fi comedy will follow their Oscar-winning ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.
Universal is backing the film.

Back in April, word arrived that ‘Project Hail Mary’ star Ryan Gosling was looking to stay in the sci-fi sphere, and had agreed to star in the new, mysterious movie from quirk-tastic ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ duo Daniels.

Well, maybe we should have wondered about the April 1st date, but rather than turning out to be a prank, the collaboration has instead been torpedoed by pesky scheduling issues. Gosling is out, but Deadline brings word that a high-profile replacement is now making a deal, with Matt Damon set in his place.

Release Date: Nov 19, 2027

Budget: $150,000,000

Damon will lead the ensemble cast for the mysterious new film from filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and producer Jonathan Wang, with Universal snapping up the rights to make it shortly after ‘Everything Everywhere’ secured its awards glory.

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What’s the story of Daniels’ new movie?

(L to R) Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Quan accept the Oscar® for Directing during the live ABC telecast of the 95th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023. Credit/Provider: Blaine Ohigashi / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.

As with their previous film, Kwan and Scheinert are keeping their cards close to their chest. But the former did tell Collider that it’ll be: “fun sci-fi, action comedy with a big heart. Very existential. All those things that you would hope that one of our movies would be. One of the reasons why it’s taking so long is because what we’re feeling and what we’re hearing from the world is very complex and really nuanced, and there’s so much paradox. To kind of reconcile all those things and put them into one movie, it takes time.”

So… yes… We’ll have to wait and see what their inventive brains have spawned this time.