The film does not include anyone playing Jordan – “Because I thought that the minute I turned the camera on somebody and asked the audience to believe that that person was Michael Jordan, the whole movie falls apart,” Affleck said.Affleck met with a small group of reporters to discuss the film, which reunites him with his good friend Matt Damon. "Air" is the first film with their new production company called Artists Equity. The film is out in theaters on April 5.
"So you've lost the ability to surprise the audience with the ending in any way. But I think what it does for me as a director, because I'm a real believer in the simple principle of, the sort of duality inherent in filmmaking, which is that have-to-have: the movie has to feel realistic, it has to feel authentic, and it has to surprise the audience. … Initially what I remember talking to Matt and saying is ‘I feel like this movie’s got to be 90 minutes.
"He was like, ‘Hey, here's a few things, that this is what I know and this is what's meaningful to me.’ He didn't seek to have any input about anything around at all that happened that he didn't have first person information about. I thought he had an extraordinary integrity in that way. He was probably the only person I talked to who didn't want to editorialize about everybody else.
"Got the script, talked to Matt. I said, 'Hey, do you want to play this part, work on this with me?’ He loved it. We were starting this company, we were like, ‘This is a perfect movie to use to launch this company,’ and we were engaged in closing the financing, and putting together the deal, and one of the things we were looking for was a project that we could use to prove the model.
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