“‘You know, Ben, just shut up, OK? You know, this is a real plan.’ I was like, ‘You mean it’s a real plan at NASA to train oil drillers?’ And he was like, ‘Just shut your mouth!'”įortunately for Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, and others, the film was a success. Armageddon is still in talks after yearsĪffleck went on to state in his best Bay impression, “I asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the f**k up. The actor shared his doubts with the director. He was unsure about the plausibility of oil riggers getting trained to be NASA astronauts. With the success of Good Will Hunting, Affleck was widely recognized, for his scriptwriting skills. The sci-fi film was a commercial success and became the highest-grossing film of 1998.Īlso read- Disney Forced Bruce Willis into Taking $17 Million Pay Cut for $553M Ben Affleck Starrer Critical Disaster Ben Affleck and Michael Bay had differences on sets of Armageddon And he was trying to find a rock to bust his mask because he couldn’t breathe because the air thing was shut.” What’s going on? Ben, what’s going on?’ So we have to run literally like a football field toward it.

They had real NASA locks on their helmets.”īay explained the real problem with the costume, And all of a sudden, I see Ben Affleck trying to hit his face shield.

They’re walking out of a plane crash, and wind machines, 100-mile-an-hour winds. I got a microphone or whatever for the actors. The first day, Ben Affleck, way down, we wrecked, we’re shooting in the Badlands in the Dakotas. “Armageddon was 120 days because you’re putting the space suits.” Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis in Armageddon

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