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Dec 12, 2023 · What began as a shot in the dark, a true underdog story, eventually became a hit this year. So, I’d been keen to talk to him since I’d seen and been blown away by the flick. We’d spoken a bit ago, but held the conversation until deeper into awards season.
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- Breaking The Sports Movie Mold
- “A Lot of People Telling Your Protagonist This Could Never Work”
- Broad, But Not Stupid
- “You Make A Movie Three Times”
Convery is a self-professed “sports guy” — he grew up in the suburbs of Chicago during “the Jordan years” and the Bulls’ wild championship title runs, and some of his earliest memories involve sitting around watching the Bulls and Jordan with his dad — but he’s not really a sports movieguy. “I generally don’t like sports movies for a lot of reasons...
“That unlocked the narrative engine of the movie because there’s a big question of, which point of view do you tell it from?” Convery said. “Once you get him and Deloris Jordan, these two just everyday characters who really have no business being a part of a deal of this nature, that really interested me.” It also tickled Convery’s always-ticking s...
“Sometimes, it’s just the right person reading the right script at the right time,” he said. “This one really benefited from Matt and Ben starting this new company, Artists Equity, and wanting to return to make movies like the ones we all grew up loving, the mid-budget adult dramas that are broad but not stupid, as Ben would put it. If they weren’t...
That collaboration extended on set, Convery said. Chris Tucker cooked up most of his own dialogue. Viola Davis improvised, by Convery’s own admission, “the best line in the movie” (that would be “A shoe is just a shoe until my son steps into it”). A lot of Chris Messina’s “agent ranting” was the product of Affleck egging him on. “Look, it’s a clich...
Cody Benjamin sits down with Alex Convery, the screenwriter behind "Air," Ben Affleck's movie about Nike's game-changing partnership with Michael Jordan.
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Jan 13, 2024 · Alex Convery ('Air' screenwriter) exclusive BAFTA Tea Party red carpet interview in Beverly Hills. Dozens of Oscar and Emmy contenders celebrated in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday...
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Apr 24, 2023 · 'Air: Courting a Legend' writer Alex Convery speaks about what audiences can expect from the film while at the red carpet premiere.
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1,689 Followers, 1,033 Following, 74 Posts - Alex Convery (@aconvery) on Instagram: "I saw a film today, oh boy"
Apr 6, 2023 · As writer Alex Convery explained to Complex during a 30-minute chat conducted amid sustaining post-SXSW hype, the process-focused works of Steven Soderbergh were among the films he turned to as...
