Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have re-teamed for a sports drama

• The two co-star in the first trailer for the true-crime drama AIR.
• Affleck directed The Town and Argo, which won the 2013 Best Picture Oscar.
• Recently, Damon and Affleck appeared in the movie The Last Duel from 2021. 

The two co-star in the first trailer for the true-crime drama AIR, which Affleck directs for the first movie since Live by Night in 2016. It’s the first movie made by Artists Equity, the new production firm founded by Affleck and Damon.

It stars Damon, 52, as Sonny Vaccaro, the sports marketing executive who helped sign Michael Jordan to Nike and launch the Air Jordan footwear, and Affleck, 50, as Philip Knight, the co-founder of Nike, Inc.

In the movie, Viola Davis plays Jordan’s mother Deloris, and her real-life husband Julius Tennon portrays Jordan’s father James. Jason Bateman, Chris Messina, Marlon Wayans, Chris Tucker, and Gustaf Skarsgrd are also featured in the film Air.

“AIR reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand,” an official synopsis reads. “This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.”

Together, Affleck and Damon wrote and co-starred in the 1998 film Good Will Hunting, which received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Affleck directed The Town and Argo, which won the 2013 Best Picture Oscar. Recently, Damon and Affleck appeared in the movie The Last Duel from 2021.

“Matt and I are very excited for audiences to see Air and proud that it’s the first release from Artists Equity,” Affleck said in a January statement, per Variety. “The movie was an extraordinary experience where we had the honor of working with some of the best cast and crew in the business, all of whom brought passion, persistence and creativity to a collective effort at recreating a remarkable and aspirational story.”

“I appreciate and value Jen Salke’s faith in our ability to execute on and deliver a movie we are proud of, as well as her and Sue Kroll’s incredible ongoing support of the film,” he added. “Amazon Studios, Skydance and Mandalay were all critical to getting this done, and the film couldn’t have been made without them. We value the steps it took on each of their parts to make it happen and want to thank them.”

The most artistic and personal event of our lives, said Affleck, “We hope to have many more like it.”

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