Jason Reitman’s next project is a film adaptation of Walter Kirn’s Up In the Air.

The book’s corporate social commentary didn’t work for me when I read it back in 2001, but any novel ostensibly about a mileage maven’s quest for 1 million miles was something I had to pour through…. although in the novel the fictional airline allowed accumulation towards lifetime status through mileage earning from any source — which only American does, it isn’t hard or worthy of the stretch goals portrayed in the book. 

Well, maybe Walter Kirn didn’t really capture business travel, but in a good-enough-for-Hollywood way I’m hopeful that Reitman will.