{"id":9790,"date":"2022-04-20T17:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T21:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=9790"},"modified":"2023-12-12T06:10:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:10:02","slug":"affleck-and-damon-team-up-for-feature-on-nike-michael-jordan-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=9790","title":{"rendered":"Affleck and Damon Team Up for Feature on Nike\/Michael Jordan Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Nike is the Greek goddess of victory, and they\u2019re hoping that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will soon be wearing a laurel wreath in her honor. \u201cThey\u201d are Amazon Studios and Skydance Sports, who are reportedly close to slam-dunking a deal for a new feature film about former Nike bigwig Sonny Vaccarro and his quest to sign up Michael Jordan as a spokesperson. Affleck is slated to wear several hats\u2014or shoes\u2014in the production: writer, director, producer, while also portraying the role of Nike\u2019s co-founder, Phil Knight. Damon has been tapped to play the part of Vaccarro and will also write and produce. Mandalay Pictures will also be a producer.<\/p>\r\n<p>Vaccarro\u2019s crusade unfolded in the 1980s when Jordan was still a rising star on the basketball courts and Nike was a third-place contender in the lucrative sneaker wars. The upcoming film will focus on his effort to snag the Jordan endorsement, which has since been regarded as one of the most lucrative athlete-branding match in sports history.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3-dmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/wellbutrin.html\">wellbutrin over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> It\u2019s expected that a key plot line will involve Vaccarro\u2019s interactions with Michael Jordan\u2019s strong-willed mother, Deloris Peoples Jordan.<\/p>\r\n<p>Here&#8217;s the brief backstory: Mandalay acquired <strong>Air Jordan<\/strong>, a screenplay written by Alex Convery, which it pitched to Jon Weinbach at Skydance Sports. The upcoming film will be Skydance\u2019s first major sports feature.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3-dmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/aciphex.html\">aciphex over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> This will not be the first time the Jordan story has been told, however.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3-dmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/ivermectin.html\">ivermectin over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> His exploits were the subject of <strong>The Last Dance<\/strong>, an Emmy-winning TV series. In 2015, ESPN\u2019s 30 for 30 documentary <strong>Sole Man<\/strong> featured the Vaccarro connection.<\/p>\r\n<p>Affleck and Damon are no strangers to the silver screen: they won an Oscar for the script for <strong>Good Will Hunting<\/strong>, in which both appeared. They also played together in Ridley Scott\u2019s <strong>The Last Duel.<\/strong> Both Affleck and Damon are listed as producers of the biblical film <strong>Apostle Paul<\/strong> starring Hugh Jackman.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nike is the Greek goddess of victory, and they\u2019re hoping that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will soon be wearing a laurel wreath in her honor. \u201cThey\u201d are Amazon Studios and Skydance Sports, who are reportedly close to slam-dunking a deal for a new feature film about former Nike bigwig Sonny Vaccarro and his quest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2835,2624,2254,8575,8574,8576,2834],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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