Matt Damon to star in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' directors' new film

Matt Damon is in talks to star in the new feature film from Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the filmmaking duo behind the Oscar-winning multiverse drama ''Everything Everywhere All at Once''.

Known collectively as Daniels, the directors' project will be backed by Universal. It is their first movie since ''Everything Everywhere All at Once'' won seven Oscars in 2023.

The directors have been working on the movie for the past three years. The story for the feature involves global warming, time travel, as well as a possible superhero angle. And there are two timelines, one set in the 1980s and one set in the present day. The protagonists of the story are teens … at least in the 1980s-set timeline, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Daniels were initially keen to cast Ryan Gosling as the father of the teens, but the casting fell through as the actor, as per THR sources, wanted the role to be bigger.

But accommodating the script changes would have led to further delays and Gosling could not be a part of it. The directors finally settled on Damon.

''Everything Everywhere All at Once'' was about a Chinese immigrant who gets embroiled in an adventure where she must connect different versions of herself in the parallel universe to stop someone who wants to harm the multiverse.

The film won best picture, director, best actress for Michelle Yeoh, and best supporting actor and actress trophies for Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis among its seven Oscars.

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