You may know him as the creepy dad from Juno. He looks much more professional here.
This news comes straight from CHUD.com's Russ Fischer:
Up in the Air, Reitman's adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel, is built along the
same lines as Thank You For Smoking -- that is, a bunch of snappy interactions
satirizing corporate culture -- there's plenty reason to be happy that Bateman
has been cast alongside George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Bateman
is boss to Clooney, a consultant who specializes in firing folks. When a new
co-worker's (Kendrick) internet innovations threaten to make his in-person
tactics obsolete, Clooney talks Bateman into giving him one last chance.
The fact that Bateman and the director from Juno were getting together again to make a satire was interesting enough, but even more intriguing was the rest of the cast.
I am definitely looking forward to seeing Clooney in this film, because he always does good in these sort-of-buddy-type roles and it isn't all that hard to imagine him as a hard-nosed consultant.
I'll admit to not having seen much of Anna Kendrick, but if her IMDB page is any indication of what's to come, I'm certainly about to. She has had a good history in Broadway and is apparently the second youngest nominee ever for a Tony award, so if the hype is true we could be looking at a potential breakout performance from her here.
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