This is what it would cost to actually rescue Matt Damon characters in all his movies
Matt Damon has a knack for getting himself into some sticky situations — or at least his characters do. In 2015's The Martian, for example, Damon plays astronaut Mark Watney, who requires an approximately $200 billion rescue from Mars.
When you throw in a World War II search party (Saving Private Ryan, $100k), an Earth evacuation spaceship (Titan A.E., $200m), and U.S. Army transport from the Middle East (Green Zone, $50k), it becomes clear that the cost of saving Matt Damon adds up fast. Thanks to Quora user Kynan Eng, we now have an approximate price tag for how much it would cost to save Damon in all of his movies: $900 billion.
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One commenter, Devin Jones, threw in his own two cents:
The real question is why after so many failed attempts do we continue to send Matt Damon into outrageous scenarios which inevitably require hundreds of millions of dollars simply to rescue him only so he can undo all our efforts by getting stuck in another equally or more absurd situation. $1Bn minimum. Which, while I don't believe in putting a price on human life, is too high even for Matt Damon. [Quora]
See the breakdown and explanation of Eng's estimate over at Quora.
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