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Hollywood superstar Ben Affleck’s newest directorial venture Air?has propelled the discussions in the NBA world toward Michael Jordan once again. The film has prompted every other NBA enthusiast to recollect MJ’s landmark shoe deal with Nike, and the birth of the Jordan brand. However, the endeavour to retell such an iconic tale was no walk in the park. In fact, the 6x-NBA champion himself posed as a potential obstacle at one point. Recently, Alex Convery, the writer of Air, weighed in on the challenging experience of working on the film.

Alex Convery grew up in Chicago in the 1990s when Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty were ruling the NBA. Therefore, telling a story about the Bulls icon was more than a dream for the screenwriter. However, at one point Convery doubted if his dream project will ever hit the silver screen.

Michael Jordan fueled the nervousness of the writer of Air

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Convery once wrote a script on the rise of the Marvel Comics and its pioneers, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. The project, however, had to remain limited to the manuscript and couldn’t make it to the theatres. Nonetheless, Convery did not give up on his movie dreams, and he decided to pen the script of Air.?

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However, Ben Affleck had insisted that he needed Michael Jordan’s approval and blessing to proceed with the film. Affleck’s steadfastness in getting MJ’s blessing had prompted the writer to doubt if his movie dream will ever materialize.

While Affleck flew to meet Jordan and seek the latter’s approval for telling his life-story, Convery was having ‘the most stressful 24 hours in his career’. ?To really do this responsibly, you need Michael to say yes. Ben said it in the first meeting, ?We will not do the movie if Michael doesn?t want to do it,???Alex Convery told?Variety. ?Either this was going to get made and it would be my first produced movie, or it?s all going to fall apart. Back to square one,” he added, alluding to his concerns about how Affleck’s meeting with Jordan would pan out.

How the meeting panned out

After spending the most stressful 24 hours of his career, good news came to Alex Convery and the rest of the crew members. His Airness gave the seal of approval for?Air.?However, it was not easy for Affleck to get the 6x-NBA champion’s nod.

Jordan insisted that the Nike executive Howard White be a crucial character in the film. Further, he stressed that he wanted nobody other than Viola Davis to play the role of his mother, Deloris Jordan.

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Ben Affleck knows that MJ is not someone who takes no for an answer. The movie star went on to make sure that Jordan’s demands were met.

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