Jason Reitman plans to direct Dreamworks’ Up in the Airwith the hopes that George Clooney will star in an adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel, which Reitman adapted.
Clooney is talking about playing an unapologetic corporate downsizer whose unfettered life is obsessed with collecting air-miles.
Apparently Kirn’s novel experienced quite a journey to production that started around 2004.
It was bought and packaged with a spec script by “The Longest Yard” scribe Sheldon Turner, with Griffin producing.
Reitman was infatuated with the book and came into the picture with 30 pages that showed how he saw the film. He has been writing it on and off for five years, putting it down when he read Diablo Cody’s Juno script. Reitman returned to the project in the spring. He completed the script weeks ago and just showed it to Clooney.
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