In a recent AMA on Reddit, actor Matt Damon answered a question posted by user TheIronGiants who asked whether he would be interested in contributing to video games. Specifically, he asked whether Damon would consider being a voice actor or performing motion capture.
While Damon admitted that he had never been "approached to do that," which is surprising given that The Bourne Conspiracy was created by High Moon Studios in 2008 (and which wasn't half-bad, by the way), he would "totally be into it":
I'm really interested to see where entertainment heads as these video games, the graphic[s] are getting so good, and VR is getting so good, and you know, what's going to movies? What are the implications for movies, and does this morph into a new kind of story telling, what is that, and can I be a part of it.
In particular, he suggests that video games is as viable a medium for storytelling as movies:
You know, ultimately those of us who make movies are storytellers and we want together you around and tell you stories. If gaming is the way to do that, I'm all for looking into it, but nobody has asked as of yet.
This decade in gaming has seen the rise of actors willing to have their likenesses captured in games, be it Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe in Beyond: Two Souls, or Aiden Gillen and Shawn Ashmore in Quantum Break, and Norman Reedus in Hideo Kojima's upcoming Death Stranding. This would be the perfect time for a development studio to ask Matt Damon to be in their games.
If that ever comes to pass, what series would be best suited for him?
