Ben Affleck’s Nike Movie Reveals Its (Incredible) Cast

The film about Nike and Sonny Vaccarro, directed by Ben Affleck with Matt Damon, enriches its cast with some very interesting names.

That’s it, Ben Affleck is returning to direct a feature film, years after his last live for the night and the abandonment of his film bat Man. His horrible experience in the world of League of JusticeThat seems to have marked the actor, who today remembers his friend Matt Damon for a more personal film about the search for athlete Michael Jordan by Nike marketing director Sonny Vaccarroduring the 1980s.

He and his partner Phil Knight, billionaire and founder of Nike, did everything possible for the immense athlete to sign a historic association with the brand in the history of American basketball. In addition to directing, Ben Affleck will play Phil Knight and write the screenplay alongside Matt Damon and Alex Convery. An Amazon Prime release is planned for a project that continues to intrigue with its cast which has been recently revealed and turns out to be very interesting.

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Along with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, we will find Jason Bateman, Viola Davis, Chris Tucker and Marlon Wayans in front of the camera. The first will play one of Nike’s top brass, Rob Strasser, who was also Sonny Vaccarro’s boss. Viola Davis will play none other than Michael Jordan’s mother.Deloris, who played a significant role in the athlete’s decision to sign with Nike.

Christ Tucker will play Howard White, an executive at Nike’s basketball arm. Finally Marlono Wayans will get into the skin of George Raveling, a close friend of Sonny Vaccarro, but also an acquaintance of Michael Jordan. He will even be the first to advise him to make a partnership with the sports brand, under the impulse of Vaccarro. From drama to comedy all walks of life are invited to the casting of this new feature film that promises to be exciting.

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This beautiful quartet thus joins Matthew Maher, Chris Messina, Tom Papa and Julius Tennon in the casting of a feature film whose title has not yet been revealed. Its filming, meanwhile, has already begun in Los Angeles. As a reminder, this will be the first time that Ben Affleck will direct his friend Matt Damonwith whom he recently starred the last dueland with whom he has already collaborated for the script of will hunting.

There is no release date yet for this sports biopic, however, it will be possible to find Ben Affleck for the last time under the Batman mask in The flashon June 21, 2023, as well as Matt Damon in the upcoming feature film directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimerwhich will be released on July 19, 2023.