'The Last Duel' Is From Three Different Perspectives Similar To 'Rashomon'

After Matt Damon‘s Oscar-nominated performance for Ridley Scott‘s “The Martian,” the actor has reunited with Scott for the period thriller “The Last Duel.” The script has penned by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Nicole Holofcener. It’s the first time the fellas have penned a script together since winning their Oscar for “Good Will Hunting.”

While speaking with Entertainment Tonight (and Marc Maron, where he told the same story), Damon explained how the film’s narrative is told from the viewpoints of Damon’s Jean de Carrouges, Adam Driver’s Jacques Le Gris), and Jodie Comer‘s Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer), the three film’s main character. As Marguerite accuses Jacques Le Gris of rape, leading to a duel to the death between her husband and the accused.

The writing duties were divided between the three writers, with Holofcener handling Marguerite’s perspective on the events. Hard not to notice the similarities between “The Last Duel” to Akira Kurosawa‘s fantastic drama “Rashomon.”

“It’s a story about perspective. So, there are two knights, and then there’s the Lady Marguerite. So Ben and I wrote the male perspectives, and Nicole Holofcener wrote the female perspective. That’s kind of the architecture of that movie,” Damon told Entertainment Tonight.

Damon continued to talk up the desire to write more after “The Last Duel” was a less time-consuming experience than when they wrote the Oscar-winning script for “Good Will Hunting” as they ended up writing a “thousand pages” because they hadn’t learned about structure.

“Making movies for 30 years, we actually learned something about structure along the way, and the process went along a lot faster. And so I think we’ll write a lot more in the future just because it didn’t turn out to be as time-consuming as we thought. It was actually a lot of fun,” Matt Damon teased about writing more screenplays in the future.

“The Last Duel” will be released in theaters on October 15.