New Terry Gilliam is always something to look forward to and the director has the science-fiction thriller The Zero Theorem coming our way at the end of the year. In the film, Christoph Waltz stars as Qohen Leth, a rather eccentric computer programmer who is working on a program that will attempt to find the meaning of life for his employer, only known as Management. Bleeding Cool has gotten the first picture of Matt Damon as Management and you can see that the look is distinctly Gilliam-esque. In fact, last October Damon revealed what his character would look like –
[B]ecause the story takes place in the future, but he had a specific look that he wanted, but then I had to [points to shaved head], and I said, “Terry, what should we do?” And he said, “Actually, we can take advantage of the fact that your head is shaved. Why don’t we change your hairline?” So he mocked up a picture and sent me a real receding hairline, with white spiked hair.
I think they nailed it.
UPDATE: And we’ve been requested to remove the picture. So we have.
Matt Damon is… Perfect Tommy
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