‘AIR’the tape that recreates the true story of Michael Jordan’s first contract with Nike, supposes lfifth film directed by and Ben Affleck in great shape thanks, in part, to the fact that he has surrounded himself with a team capable of aspiring to the title of “Best Film of 2023”: Matt Damon, Viola Davis, Chris Messina, Marlon Wayans, Chris Tucker y Jason Batemanin addition to Affleck himself who repeats as an actor.
A formidable cast reminiscent of that great team from the mid-90s, the Chicago Bulls turned into a real steamroller for winning titles under the orders of Phil Jackson, with Michael Jordan as the leading reference and with stars such as Ron Harper, Luc Longley, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman, plus some talented Toni Kukoc and Steve Kerr.
There are many questions that we asked ourselves before its premiere: are we facing one of the best biopics in the history of cinema? What demands did Michael Jordan have for Ben Affleck, before shooting ‘AIR’?, can you make a film about that magical -and lucrative- association between the greatest basketball player of all time and the sports firm par excellence without Michael Jordan himself appearing in the film?
On this last question, we will say “yes, it is possible”. As our review of ‘AIR’ puts it, “the biggest star in NBA history is barely a Hitchcockian Macguffin in this fable about two dreamers who revolutionized the sports industry.” marketing and Yankee professional sports”.
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However, The fact that we do not have MJ in the film does not mean that we cannot count on the mythical player and some other star in a hypothetical sense. in which “anything goes”. Let’s get in situation. Which Chicago Bulls players would be the actors in ‘AIR’? If Ben Affleck, the director of the film, would be Phil Jackson, the coach who won six titles with the Bulls, and Viola Davis would wear the mythical 23 of Michael Jordan, for giving life to her mother in fiction, who would they be? the rest of the cast?
Ben Affleck wanted to remember in PHOTOGRAMS the movies he made with Matt Damon before ‘AIR’, and we wanted to pay him back by submitting to a fun trivia to Affleck himself, and his faithful friend Matt Damonin which the also director of ‘Argo’ could not avoid scoring a triple and shoutingbetween laughs, an “¡Es Scottie Pippen!” in reference to one of the interpreters who star in the film. Do you want to find out who it refers to? The answer is in the video.
