Ben Affleck was 12 years old in 1984 and growing up in the Boston area. The Celtics were NBA champions. The Red Sox and Patriots were respectable. The Bruins got swept in the first round of the playoffs.
Part of that tale will be told in the upcoming film “Air,” which Affleck directed and stars in alongside Matt Damon, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman and more. Affleck plays Nike co-founder Phil Knight, and Damon plays then-Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro - who was tasked with finding a way of saving what was then the company's fledgling basketball division.
And since most viewers will already know all those things, Affleck took on the challenge of telling lesser-known parts of the story. “The movie has to do realistic, it has to do authentic, and it has to surprise the audience,” Affleck said. “Because if what happens is something that the audience can predict, even if they like it, they go along with it, it's ordinary, it's boring. It's just not what I want to do.”
The trailer, released last week, is up to 6 million views. Affleck was at All-Star weekend to help promote Friday's celebrity game, and ads for the film were shown on the jumbo scoreboards over the court.“Somebody asked me what you're doing from Boston and making a movie about the Chicago guy,” Affleck said in an interview with a number of media outlets. “Michael Jordan sort of transcends, I think, rivalry.
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