Sonny Vaccaro Stoked To Be Performed By Matt Damon In Biopic, ‘It is Off The Charts’

Sonny Vacccaro — the shoe model trade legend — tells TMZ Sports activities he is completely fired up for his upcoming biopic … explaining he loves that Matt Damon is taking part in him within the film!!!

“That is the perfect factor that I might have ever imagined,” the 83-year-old mentioned. “And it is greater as a result of I by no means imagined it might occur. It is off the charts. It is off the charts.”

Damon and Ben Affleck have teamed as much as make the film about Vaccaro’s life — with Affleck set to play famed Nike honcho Phil Knight within the flick.

Producers promise the film will inform the story of how Vaccaro and Knight relentlessly pursued Michael Jordan to signal a shoe take care of Nike again within the Eighties. Filming formally kicked off this summer time.

Additional particulars surrounding the script have not been made public but — and whereas Vaccaro himself is not sure of the minutia of the film, he is pumped for it nonetheless.

“I am unable to clarify,” Vaccaro mentioned. “I am 83 years previous. It was full shock to me. It is an unbelievable honor and I imagine in what they will do goes to be the reality on the movie.”

Vaccaro says he and his spouse, Pam, have been truly invited to the set not too long ago, and so they had a blast. He tells us us they obtained to satisfy with Damon whereas there, and informed him they share a humorous reference to Jason Bourne.

Vaccaro additionally informed us he was blown away when he noticed the complete solid — explaining, “It is like ‘Gone With The Wind’ or one thing. I imply, my God, there are not any guys that the world’s not going to know.”