‘Air’ Screenwriter Alex Convery on Advice from Ben Affleck, What He Kept from the Set and How Free Nike Gear He’s Received + Movie Review: The Super Mario Bros. Movie + Trailer Park: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Movie Mike's Movie Podcast
Nashville Podcast Network
5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Mike talks to Alex Convery (@AConvery) about his first produced screenplay Air. Alex talks about how he decided to write the movie after watching the Last Dance, what the initial script was like and the call he got from Ben Affleck that he was interested. Alex shares stories from the set of the movie, seeing his script come to life and what he kept from the set as a momento. Alex shares his passion for watching movies, where his creativity comes from and what career advice Ben Affleck gave him. In the movie review, Mike talks about The Super Mario Bros. Movie and where it ranks among video game movie adaptations, who was the best voice actor in the cast and what this could mean for a possible Nintendo cinematic universe. In the Trailer Park, Mike shares his theory on what Miles Morales will go through in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
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| 0:00.0 | Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade. |
| 0:07.0 | He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero. |
| 0:13.7 | His name is Vasili Spaliokostas and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood |
| 0:20.3 | who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | I am your host Movie Mike and today I have an interview with the writer from Air that even if you haven't seen the movie yet, |
| 0:39.2 | I think you will be inspired by a story and his passion for writing makes me feel like Hollywood is in good hands with the next generation of writers. |
| 0:46.8 | In the movie review, it's finally time to talk about the Super Mario Brothers movie and in the trailer park, |
| 0:51.6 | we're diving into Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse and all my theories going into that movie. |
| 0:56.7 | Welcome if you are new here, I hope you subscribe and stick around and now let's talk movies. |
| 1:01.8 | In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners, |
| 1:09.2 | like never before in a movie podcast, a man with so much movie knowledge. |
| 1:14.9 | He's basically like a walking IMTP with glasses from the Nashville podcast network. |
| 1:21.3 | This is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. |
| 1:25.5 | About to get into my interview with Alex Conberry, he is 30 years old and air is his first produced screenplay ever. |
| 1:32.5 | He wrote it as a spec script after he watched the last dance on Netflix back in 2020. |
| 1:37.3 | And what a spec script is, it is when a screenwriter writes a script to a movie in hopes that it will be purchased by a producer, |
| 1:44.4 | a production company or a studio, kind of along the same lines as a songwriter would just write a song, |
| 1:50.4 | hoping that someday a big artist would find it, like it and want to record it. |
| 1:54.7 | So Alex's story is very unusual that the spec script he just wrote ended up getting made into a movie and has had so much success. |
| 2:02.6 | And even if you haven't seen the movie air, which is all about the creation of the air Jordan shoe, |
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