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Ben Affleck returns to director's chair in new film 'Air'

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Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood

<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uGVFGDJowaE?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>A decade after winning Oscar Best Picture for &quot;Argo,&quot; Ben Affleck returned to his actor-director&#x27;s chair to tell another story inspired by real events.</p><p>He’s the director of “Air” and also plays Phil Knight, Nike’s founder, and the person who green lighted the then-impossible pursuit of creating a sneaker brand tied with basketball legend Michael Jordan.</p><p>&quot;I think it parallels the goals that we had in trying to create this movie studio that was going to do things in a slightly different way,&quot; Affleck said when asked what compelled him to direct the film.</p><p>Affleck added that he wanted to make a movie that &quot;people would love, that was just about human beings talking to each other based on performance and writing and execution of that.&quot;</p><p>He was referring to Artists&#x27; Equity, his newly formed production company with his longtime friend and &quot;Air&quot; lead star Matt Damon.</p><p>It aims to give crew and actors ownership stakes that make them significant participants in the outcome of any project they work on.</p><p>The more profit the film generates, the higher the cast and crew’s income will be.</p><p>This was similar to what was portrayed in “Air” where Jordan and his mother Deloris negotiated a historic deal that allowed the athlete to have a share of Nike&#x27;s profits for every Air Jordan sneaker sold.</p><p>&quot;It has a strong parallel and it’s a lot of themes that are current,&quot; Affleck said. &quot;We tried to break rules and do some things a little differently and compensate people more fairly. And we have ambitions, and I hope we are successful, even a tiny bit as much as Nike and Michael Jordan were.&quot; </p>

A decade after winning Oscar Best Picture for 'Argo,' Ben Affleck returned to his actor-director's chair in the inspiring film 'Air.'