Jason Reitman is grounded in 'Up in the Air' - Chicago Tribune

proved that Reitman's success is based on credentials, not genes, his third film, "Up in the Air," should seal the deal. Reitman began writing his adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel seven years ago, back when he was still just his father's son.

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"As a movie, I thought it would be interesting to humanize a guy who fired people for a living," Reitman said during a recent interview, recalling that he first picked up the book (in an airport, fittingly) while playing the hurry-up-and-wait game in anticipation of "Thank You For Smoking." When he returned to his "Up in the Air" script a year or so later, he said, everything had changed. "I was married, I was a dad. What had started out as a book that I wanted to adapt as a pretty straight-forward corporate satire had changed into a movie about a guy searching for what, and who, he wants in his life." We chatted with the 32-year-old Reitman during a Chicago stopover on a whirlwind promotional tour that had him up in the air more days than not. Q: One of the ideas explored in this film is that everyone is wired via various devices all the time and supposedly more connected and closer than they ever used to be. But it's all virtual.

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