who wrote good will hunting

The screenplay for "Good Will Hunting" was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Matt Damon initially wrote it as a 40-page script for a playwriting class at Harvard University, and then he asked Ben Affleck to help develop it into the full screenplay. The script went through several rewrites, with some advice from experienced filmmakers like Rob Reiner, but the credited and original writers are Damon and Affleck. The film, released in 1997, won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for their work.