‘Air’ Movie: Everything You Need To Know About Ben Affleck’s Nike Film

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Ben Affleck directed Air.
Ben, Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, and Viola Davis prima successful Air.
Air is astir Michael Jordan and Nike’s shoeline.
Air will beryllium released successful theaters connected April 5.

Ben Affleck‘s caller movie is drafting large buzz adjacent earlier its release. The Oscar victor returned to the director’s seat for the archetypal clip successful implicit six years for the new biographical movie Air, about Nike signing Michael Jordan to make the iconic Air Jordan shoeline. The film, which is acceptable successful the 1980s, premiered astatine SXSW connected March 18 to rave reviews. Ahead of the movie’s theatrical release, HollywoodLife has rounded up everything you request to cognize about Air, including the merchandise date, the cast, and overmuch more.

‘Air’ Release Date

Air will beryllium released successful theaters connected April 5 by Amazon Studios. The movie volition NOT beryllium disposable to watercourse connected Prime Video upon its theatrical debut. Air is the archetypal Amazon movie to travel retired successful theaters and not simultaneously premiere connected Prime Video since the 2019 comedy-drama Late Night.

‘Air’ Trailer

The trailer for Air was released connected February 9. Three days later, the trailer aired during the 2023 Super Bowl. The footage features Nike CEO Phil Knight (Ben Affleck) questioning Sonny Vaccaro‘s thought to spell each successful connected Michael Jordan to make a shoeline. “I judge successful your son. I judge he’s the future, and his communicative is going to marque america privation to fly. But a footwear is conscionable a shoe,” Sonny says to Michael Jordan’s mom, Deloris Jordan. Sonny comes up with the sanction Air Jordan, which Phil isn’t a instrumentality of astatine first.

‘Air’ Cast & Crew

Cast

Ben Affleck didn’t conscionable direct Air; helium besides stars successful the movie arsenic Nike CEO Phil Knight. Matt Damon plays Sonny Vaccaro, who helped motion Michael to the athlete’s archetypal sneaker deal. Ben and Matt are longtime friends and collaborators. They antecedently worked unneurotic connected 1997’s Good Will Hunting and 2021’s The Last Duel. They are some producers on Air, arsenic well.

Viola Davis plays Michael Jordan’s parent in Air. Viola’s husband, Julius Tennon, plays MJ’s father, James R. Jordan Sr. Michael Jordan is not portrayed successful the movie astatine all.

Air also stars Jason Bateman as Nike enforcement Rob Strasser, Marlon Wayans as NBA all-star George Raveling, Chris Messina arsenic sports cause David Falk, Chris Tucker as Nike tract typical Howard White, Matthew Maher as Nike originative manager Peter Moore, Jessica Green as Sonny’s caput Katrina Sainz, and Gustaf Skarsgard and Barbara Sukowa arsenic Adidas figureheads Horst Dassler and Kathy Dassler.

Crew

Ben Affleck is the manager of Air, his archetypal directorial diagnostic since 2016’s Live by The Night. He directed the 2012 thriller Argo, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Ben is besides a shaper connected Air with Matt Damon, David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, Jon Weinbach, Peter Guber, and others. Alex Convery wrote the publication for Air. Robert Richardson did the cinematography and William Goldenberg did the editing. Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports, Artists Equity, and Mandalay Pictures are the accumulation companies behind Air.

What Is ‘Air’ About?

The authoritative synopsis for AIR reads: “From award-winning manager Ben Affleck, AIR reveals the unbelievable game-changing concern betwixt a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike’s fledgling hoops part which revolutionized the satellite of sports and modern civilization with the Air Jordan brand. This moving communicative follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional squad with everything connected the line, the uncompromising imaginativeness of a parent who knows the worthy of her son’s immense talent, and the hoops phenom who would go the top of each time.”

Ben Affleck talked astir creating Air in a March 2023 interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter. He said helium met with Michael Jordan and got his blessing to bash the project. “I person to beryllium precise clear, this is not the authorized Michael Jordan story,” Ben said. “He was not compensated successful a mode that would beryllium due if this were that. If you’re going to bash a Michael Jordan story, they should backmost the f****** motortruck up. This was maine saying, ‘Mike, I’m not going to marque the movie if you’re not chill with thing astir it. I conscionable won’t bash it. I privation to cognize what’s important to you.’ He was precise clear.”

Ben besides confirmed that helium didn’t speech to Nike astir making Air. “I did not person a speech with Nike due to the fact that I didn’t consciousness the aforesaid consciousness of idiosyncratic work [as I did to Michael Jordan] due to the fact that it’s not a past of Nike,” helium said. “There’s interviews and books astir that.”

Ben besides revealed to THR that his wife, Jennifer Lopez, had input connected the Air script. “She is incredibly knowledgeable astir the mode manner evolves done the civilization arsenic a confluence of music, sports, amusement and dance,” Ben said. “She helped maine successful talking astir the mode successful which a portion of the crushed wherefore Jordans [the shoes] were truthful meaningful is due to the fact that civilization and benignant successful America is 90 percent driven by Black culture.”

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