Ben Affleck & Matt Damon to Team Up Again for New Movie About Nike & Michael Jordan
justjared.comBen Affleck and Matt Damon are once again teaming up for a new movie! The two stars will be working together again on an upcoming movie, which will be the true-life story of former Nike executive Sonny Vaccarro. Click inside to read more… According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ben will direct, write, co-star, and produce the untitled sports marketing movie while Matt will star and also write and produce. Matt will be playing Sunny Vaccarro while Ben will play Nike co-founder Phil Knight in a “story around Nike’s longshot effort to sign rising superstar basketball player Michael Jordan to its shoe company in the mid-eighties, an endorsement that seemed impossible at the time but thanks to the maverick sneaker salesman, would become the most significant relationship between an athletic brand and an athlete.
The deal launched the global, multi-billion-dollar contemporary sneaker industry and also helped the sport do the same.” The upcoming untitled project will hail from Amazon Studios and Skydance Sports.
This will be the third movie Matt and Ben have worked on together. The two won an Oscar for writing the script for the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting.
Last year, the co-wrote the script and appeared together in the movie The Last Duel. If you missed it, Jennifer Lopez recently shared the super romantic way Ben proposed to her for the second time!
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