Spy vs. Spy?

Is Jake chasing Matt Damon ?

First it was David Fincher's movie Torso, which has had both Matt and Jake's attached to it. Torso is the story of Eliot Ness chasing a serial killer who held Cleveland captive as the killing continued. Matt and Jake were both in London this past December at the same time director David Fincher was, and speculation was that maybe they were negotiations and meetings before time ran out on the option.

Matt's acting has been an influence on Jake's performances and he has mention many times how he would like a career like Matt's.

Promoting Rendition, Jake mention he turned more to movies about C.I.A. for inspiration than talking to actual field agents to find the emotion for play Douglas
Freeman. Saying, "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, which is a merging of the alcoholic and the spy, literally and in the movie. And then also, The Good Shepard actually, which I think, just a little shout out to Matt Damon, that’s a pretty incredible performance. More about the less he does, then the more he does and that’s the kind of performance that I look up to. So, I just tried to copy it."

So after the picture of Jake meeting with Steven Gaghan yesterday, got someone at /Films (Slash Films)to wonder this: "the only announced project that Gaghan is currently working on is an adaptation of the Jon Stock spy novel Dead Spy Running, the first of a possible trilogy of films/book about a newly trained spy who goes on a globe trotting adventure to exonerate his father. Gaghan is writing the screenplay for McG to direct. It is more than possible for an interested star to be involved in the development of the screenplay. And I’m not sure about you, but I can certainly picture Gyllenhaal in a Bourne-style spy action thriller."

Talk about being Bourne. You can see why Jake would want have a career similar to Matt's. But have ever realize how much they do have in common?

Matt Damon vs Jake Gyllenhaal

Blue Eyes
Great Grins

Red Sox Fan
And walked the walk in NYC

Been to Martha's Vineyard

Have BFF's who are actors
and they're know together by just first names

Dropped out of Ivy League School
(Matt- Harvard Jake - Columbia)

Known for supporting charities

Played CIA agents

Played a character who's gay.

Subject of many Datalounge discussions

Played soldiers in movies about Desert Storm

Co-starred with Heath Ledger

Co-starred with Gwyneth Paltrow

Played a guy named Donny

Have donned the Spandex.

There is just one thing that Matt has,
that no amount of work Jake does
he'll always be a little behind. ; )

To play yesterday's fanmix. Just press play on the Ipod player in yesterday's post and enjoy.