Tuesday, Jan. 19

Controversy Surrounding The Best Movie of 2009: Up In The Air

2010 starts out with a bang!

My favorite story from last year has some kind of controversy attached to it. Up In The Air, directed and written by Jason Reitman, ALSO seems to have been written by Sheldon Turner. Apparently Sheldon had been working on his own adaptation of Walter Kirn’s novel for several years when Reitman discovered the book in an independent book shop. They share writing credit, but as far as I knew, Reitman had written the whole thing himself (at least that was my impression).

I was completely shocked that Avatar beat what I consider to be the best film of 2009 at the Golden Globes, but was even more shocked to find out that there might be more behind the story than I had originally thought.