Webdesk: The idea for “Air” came to writer Alex Convery during a two-minute scene in a movie. The writer told Indiewire that Convery never thought the script would become a movie.
In an interview, the writer talked about what happened:
“You always want to come up with ideas that will grab someone’s attention. So they can at least read the logline and be like, ‘OK, I get it,'” he said. “You still need a good script, but at least you can try to stack the deck in your favour.”
“Every now and then, you hear, ‘This big actor read the script, they’re interested, and they want to do it’. When I was just starting out, I thought, ‘Holy crap, I made it!’ “Then you learn how Hollywood works, which is that you never hear that they’re not doing it; you just stop hearing about it,” Convery told IndieWire during an interview.
“You’ll go crazy if you let every call from your agent about someone interested in your script affect how you feel. I knew who the script was for, and you probably think that these are our five crazy names and that they are all going to pass. I got a call that said, “Ben read the script and is interested in directing it. He’s going to think about it some more and talk to his team, and then we’ll see.”
Two days later, Convery got another call: “Clear your schedule, we’re going to meet with Ben on Tuesday.”
“Obviously, this is a call you want to get, but a movie can fall apart a million different ways. So just because Ben wants to meet doesn’t mean the movie’s happening,” he said.
Convery said with a laugh, “I didn’t really believe it until the first day of filming”. “Well, it’s actually the third day of filming because I was sick on the first day. But when I got to set on the third day, I was like, “OK, this is happening.” Just like you don’t get a call when people aren’t doing it, you also don’t get a call saying, “Yes, this is for sure, Ben’s doing it, paper signed.”
