‘AIR’ Trailer: Ben Affleck & Matt Damon Team Up Again To Change The Face Of Nike Forever

In 1984, Nike isn’t the marque we each cognize today. The marque needs a spark. That’s wherever Sonny Vaccaro, played by Matt Damon, comes in. He’s brought successful to turn the hoops business. Sonny has to travel up with a superb idea, and helium does conscionable that successful the archetypal AIR trailer, which volition aerial during the 2023 Super Bowl. Sonny is “willing to stake his career” connected 1 guy.

That feline is the legendary Michael Jordan. Nike CEO Phil Knight, played by Ben Affleck, is understandably hesitant astir going each successful connected MJ considering he’s “never acceptable ft connected an NBA court.” But Sonny is persistent. He wants to physique a footwear enactment astir Michael.

Ben Affleck arsenic Phil Knight. (Amazon Studios)

“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 show,” Sonny says to Michael Jordan’s mother, played by Viola Davis. MJ’s ma replies, “Until my lad steps into them.”

When Phil asks Sonny astir a sanction for the footwear line, Sonny says Air Jordan. Phil’s not precisely impressed close away. “Maybe it’ll turn connected me,” helium says. That footwear enactment has surely grown and earned millions and millions of dollars.

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.”

Matt Damon and Viola Davis successful ‘AIR.’ (Amazon Studios)

AIR reunites Ben and Matt, the champion person duo who won an Oscar for penning Good Will Hunting unneurotic successful 1997. This marks the archetypal clip Ben has directed his longtime person and collaborator.

The movie besides stars Jason Bateman, Chris Messina, Matthew Maher, Marlon Wayans, Jay Mohr, Julius Tennon, and Chris Tucker. AIR volition premiere exclusively successful theaters connected April 5, 2023.

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