Up in the Air

According to LatinoReview and several of their sources, Reitman is working on Up in the Air, a novel by Walter Kirn (Thumbsucker).

Apparently Jason’s father, Ivan, owns the rights to the novel and is executive producing it. In 2003, Sheldon Turner did a draft of it, but Jason will likely rewrite it for himself.

An earlier statement made by the young filmmaker said he would direct this mystery project at the end of the year.

But what is the book about? According to Amazon, this:

“Officially, Bingham is a management consultant, specializing in the lugubrious field of career transition counseling (i.e., he fires people for a living). But what Kirn’s airborne protagonist is really doing is pursuing his own private passion, his great white whale: accumulating one million miles in his frequent-flyer account. As Up in the Air opens, Bingham has set out on a final, epic traveling jag. He intends to visit eight cities in six days, thereby achieving his own vision of Nirvana somewhere over Sioux Falls, South Dakota.”

He’ll make this film before moving on to direct Jim Carrey in Pierre, Pierre.

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