How much money, exactly? Well these are movies, obviously, so they aren’t real. But if they were, BGR reports that the total cost of Damon’s rescues would amount to $900 billion dollars and change. That’s according to a Quora answer to the question, “How much money has been spent attempting to bring Matt Damon back from distant places?”
Kynan Eng writes:
This question can be answered in terms of movie budgets, or estimated fictional costs where Matt Damon has been sent on extended “business trips”. See detailed estimates below.Movie BudgetsCourage under Fire: $46mSaving Private Ryan: $70mTitan AE: $75mSyriana: $50mGreen Zone: $100mElysium: $115mInterstellar: $165mThe Martian: $108mTOTAL:
$729mFictional CostsMy estimates, costs are in 2015 currencyCourage Under Fire (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $300kSaving Private Ryan (WW2 Europe search party): $100kTitan AE (Earth evacuation spaceship): $200BSyriana (Middle East private security return flight): $50kGreen Zone (US Army transport from Middle East): $50kElysium (Space station security deployment and damages): $100mInterstellar (Interstellar spaceship): $500BThe Martian (Mars mission): $200BTOTAL: $900B plus changeNotes
- Movie marketing costs are not included
- Only movies where Matt Damon acted are included
- Making the Matt Damon movies has cost about 0.1% of the “real” cost to actually send him on all of these business trips
- His movie gross takings so far are about $2.7B, which is about 40% of the cheapest proposed trip to Mars, as proposed by the Mars One team.
In other words, if all of the characters played by Damon in the films mentioned above were real people, who needed actual rescuing from the precarious situations depicted, then his rescuers would need almost one trillion dollars to save them all.
Next time Damon needs to be saved at the movies, let’s just leave his ass wherever he’s gotten himself stuck.
[h/t BGR]
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