5/24/2023 0 Comments Up in the Air by Walter Kirn![]() Kirn recalled how he found out that the movie was finally greenlit, after much turnaround (some of it due to 9/11 and the general mood that a movie set largely in airports just wasn't going to fly). "This was a movie to me about being alone and getting old" – neither a condition, he pointed out, Hollywood had much use for. "I wrote this book when I was getting divorced – for the first time," said Kirn. Rattling off its themes of "unemployment and corporate America and texting," Kirn expressed continued shock that shiny happy Hollywood had any interest in his book, or in maintaining its dark outlook. ![]() "How did Hollywood even make a movie this pessimistic?" That was Walter Kirn's first reaction to rewatching Up in the Air, the Oscar-nominated 2009 film adapted from his 2001 novel of the same name.Īppearing at the Stateside at the Paramount last night as part of the Austin Bat Cave's ongoing Screen conversation series, Kirn took the stage post-screening with Evan Smith to talk about the adaptation process. ![]()
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