George Clooney circles “Air”
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - George Clooney is in talks to star in “Up in the Air” for “Juno” director Jason Reitman.
The actor will inhabit an unapologetic corporate downsizer whose untethered life is consumed by collecting air miles. The DreamWorks project is based on the 2001 Walter Kirn novel.
The project has a long history, with “Austin Powers” director Jay Roach first setting it up at Fox. It eventually made its way to Montecito, the production company run by Reitman’s father, Ivan.
The younger Reitman picked up the tome when he was cobbling together financing for his feature debut “Thank You for Smoking” and wrote 30 pages of a draft. He’s been writing his adaptation in the background for the past five years as he directed “Smoking” and then last year’s massive hit “Juno.”
Clooney, last in cinemas with the American football comedy “Leatherheads,” is in the throes of promoting his latest film, the Coen brothers’ farce “Burn After Reading.”
Kirn also wrote the novel “Thumbsucker,” which writer-director Mike Mills adapted into a film in 2005.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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