A viral meme—“Hollywood can’t stop spending money to get Matt Damon home”—is again making the rounds ahead of The Odyssey. The joke claims studios have spent “over $600 million” rescuing Damon across multiple films. While that number is considered an exaggeration, coverage highlights how his characters repeatedly drive expensive, high-stakes journeys back to safety or home. Articles track the pattern across Damon’s work, from large-scale war rescues to space and survival missions, arguing the recurrence is why the meme keeps sticking.