Oh Matt Damon, why do you keep getting yourself in trouble?
The Hollywood actor has been in a host of films including Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar and The Martian, where he has found himself needing to be retrieved from far-flung and dangerous places.
If you've ever wondered how much it would really cost to save Matt Damon over and over again, one Quora user has asked the exact same thing -- and yes, there's an answer.
According to another Quora user's estimate, this is what all those search parties and interplanetary expeditions would have cost.
Movie Budgets
Courage under Fire: $46m
Saving Private Ryan: $70m
Titan AE: $75m
Syriana: $50m
Green Zone: $100m
Elysium: $115m
Interstellar: $165m
The Martian: $108m
TOTAL: $729m
Fictional Costs
My estimates, costs are in 2015 currency
Courage Under Fire (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $300k
Saving Private Ryan (WW2 Europe search party): $100k
Titan AE (Earth evacuation spaceship): $200B
Syriana (Middle East private security return flight): $50k
Green Zone (US Army transport from Middle East): $50k
Elysium (Space station security deployment and damages): $100m
Interstellar (Interstellar spaceship): $500B
The Martian (Mars mission): $200B
TOTAL: $900B plus change
Notes
Movie marketing costs are not included
Only movies where Matt Damon acted are included
Making the Matt Damon movies has cost about 0.1% of the "real" cost to actually send him on all of these business trips
His movie gross takings so far are about $2.7B, which is about 40% of the cheapest proposed trip to Mars, as proposed by the Mars One team.
Lucky it's all fiction, otherwise we might have given up a while ago. Sorry Matt.