Christopher,
You have to abandon your ego. You have to harness your imagination for the grand into the sensory, because you can't harness it into the story -- that's already set. After you write the script, you have to go through every line and trim the cheese. You can't let that shit creep in. You have to elevate Matt Damon beyond anything he's ever done; beyond his relatability; beyond himself. He has to become "godlike", not down-to-earth. None of the actors can be themselves, actually. They all have to find a plane within yet above what they've known. This is a task like portraying Christ. It's an absolutely searching and sacred task. I don't mean to deify the poet but this work deserves all of the sincerity of the Bible, for its context if not its quality.
You have to give up the director's chair. You can't pull this off. You're too gimmicky. You made a living surprising dummies. Is that difficult enough to grant you this loaded project? It's not. This is not for you. I'll watch you though. Good luck. You'll need it.
The big question is who could do a better job? Many of his contemporaries would produce something worse
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