Many famous hands collaborated on director Ben Affleck’s “Air,” now in theaters. Screenwriter Alex Convery shares his backstory as a 'film nerd' from Chicago's western suburbs.
style, with shoes instead of hostages, it sells a rousing, semi-fictionalized version of events surrounding the invention of Nike’s Air Jordan shoe line; the gumption of Nike marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro , among others, in securing Michael Jordan for an unprecedented sponsorship deal; and the backstory of how a “film nerd” from Chicago’s western suburbs grew up to be Alex Convery.
Convery and his wife, a Veterans Affairs pharmacist, live in Venice Beach, California. “I have the most unstable job in existence,” he told me the other day. “So between us, we land somewhere in the middle.”Convery and I met for coffee around the corner from the Nike store downtown. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
My parents were supportive and freaked out at the same time, but I applied to filmmaking summer programs at DePaul, Iowa, all over the country, and ended up in this screenwriting 101 class at USC. I was 17 and felt like I’d found my people, my place, my purpose. It was everything I dreamed of without knowing I was dreaming of it. Senior year of high school was increasingly difficult, coming back from that experience. But you go through it.
But Ben and Matt were nothing if not transparent. They said, look, we have some ideas on the script and want to take a pass at it, add this and that, and take another look at the ending. So you make the bargain, happily, in order to get a movie made. It sounds like , but they were great. Ben was keyed into the idea of giving all the major characters their moment in the spotlight. The original script was even more Sonny-centric than the final version.
I was a Marvel kid growing up, but in a million years I never imagined we’d be on the third “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie. It’s unfathomable, in a way, for better and for worse.
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