It would cost billions of dollars if America really had to save Matt Damon’s life over and over again.
Some actors are type casted. This could be a good or bad thing. For Jaleel White, being typecasted has forced the actor to forever be known as Steve Urkel. But, for Matt Damon, nearly every movie he stars in, Damon is getting rescued.
So, if you have ever wondered how much it would cost to save Matt Damon over and over again, one Quora user asked the same exact question, and apparently there’s an answer.
According to one user’s estimates, this is what all those search parties and interplanetary expeditions would have cost.
Movie Budgets
Courage under Fire: $46m
Saving Private Ryan: $70m
Titan AE: $75m
Syriana: $50m
Green Zone: $100m
Elysium: $115m
Interstellar: $165m
The Martian: $108m
TOTAL: $729mFictional Costs
My estimates, costs are in 2015 currency
Courage Under Fire (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $300k
Saving Private Ryan (WW2 Europe search party): $100k
Titan AE (Earth evacuation spaceship): $200B
Syriana (Middle East private security return flight): $50k
Green Zone (US Army transport from Middle East): $50k
Elysium (Space station security deployment and damages): $100m
Interstellar (Interstellar spaceship): $500B
The Martian (Mars mission): $200B
TOTAL: $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.
Luckily, this it’s only a movie, otherwise America would have given up a long time ago.
