Jason Reitman's next is UP IN THE AIR or is it?
Reitman adapting Walter Kirn's corporate satire novel.
I was majorly surprised when Jason Reitman didn't decide to helm Jennifer's Body, the second scripted movie from Diablo Cody after Juno, the movie they collaborated together which got huge critical, box office and fan acclaim. Reitman has always said to be a fan of the horror genre and the project sounded like his kind of tonque-in-cheek and social commentary fare but for reasons undisclosed his chose against it. One thing that is very evident from this director is that he chooses exactly which project he wants to direct from one feature to the next. He will not do a movie just for the cash (Justice League) or for the sole purpose of bettering his career profile. Instead, he will direct scripts which he believes he can bring something to and having something that he wishes to explore. Latino Review yesterday ran a piece claiming that Reitman's next picture would be Up in the Air - an adaptation of a Walter Kirn novel (he wrote the already adapted Thumbsucker) whose rights have belonged in the hands of Jason's father director Ivan Reitman for the past five years when he bought a spec script from screenwriter Sheldon Turner (The Longest Yard).
Reitman says... Yeah, Im writing something, he grinned, cryptically. Im going to direct it at the end of the year. And no, I havent told anyone what it is yet. After a few minutes of poking and prodding, we finally got the Oscar-nominated Juno and Thank You for Smoking Director to cough up a wee bit more. Its a comedy and a drama , he revealed. Think Thank You for Smoking, but instead of political its corporate.However the site would later post somewhat of a detraction claiming that although it's true Reitman is scribing the adaptation - no deal is actually in place for him to direct just yet. Plot details for the book below...
Ryan Binghams job as a Career Transition Counselor he fires people has kept him airborne for years. Although he despises his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls, Airworld, finding contentment within pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms. With a letter of resignation sitting on his bosss desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious consulting firm, Ryan Bingham is agonizingly close to his ultimate goal, his Holy Grail: one million frequent flier miles. Kirn takes on the corporate world's weirdly mystical and paranoid side, its rhetoric of personal empowerment and its messianic devotion to gurus.Sounds mega-interesting. Then later in the day Shock Till You Drop got word from the set of Jennifer's Body (where Reitman is producing) of something all of us have kinda been expecting. He calls it his "Ghost Busters" idea and I don't know a better way of putting it. You just know he will direct a big sci-fi/comedy in the vein of his father one day, it's inevitable...
"One day, I can see myself doing a big film, but those are not generally the films that are in my heart," he says. "I like to make small movies and I have many more ideas for smaller, strangers films than I do for bigger fare. I have my Ghostbusters idea and one day I'll direct it. I think it's pretty cool. It's a big sci-fi comedy, but that's not what I think about most. If I could only make one more movie and it was my big sci-fi comedy movie or my weirdest of the weird ideas which is probably to remake Pretty Woman shot-for-shot with a real hooker in the role of Julia Roberts, I would probably do Pretty Woman. That's where my heart is."Jason Reitman also has Pierre Pierre, an outrageous comedy about a self-indulgent French nihilist who transports a stolen painting from Paris to London that he is set to direct with Jim Carrey attached - believed to begin filming once the latter is done with the gay prison comedy I Love You Phillip Morris. Until we hear otherwise, expect that to be his next film. source - coming soon