Jason Retiman is working with Jennifer Garner and Ellen Page on the drama…plus, is he thinking about bringing back his dad’s (Ivan Reitman) franchise?

After the success of “Thank You For Smoking”, Jason Reitman became a very sought out director. So when a small little script from Diablo Cody came across his desk, it didn’t take long for Jason to put down the pen on the screenplay he was working on to jump about “Juno”.

During this week’s Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, Jason premiered his short, Consent, which is absolutely hilarious! I had the opportunity to sit down with Jason to talk about his latest film. Perched on the bima of the very synagogue where he was Bar Mitzvahed, Sinai Temple, we chatted about the Jennifer Garner/Ellen Page dramedy.

He describes it: “Juno is about a 16-year-old girl who gets pregnant; she decides to give her baby up for adoption, and finds a yuppy couple in their early 30’s to adopt her baby. She proceeds to have a relationship with the man in that couple. It’s a character like I’ve never read before – this very strong, independent-minded 16-year-old girl, who, every time she has to react to something, she says or does something unexpected. And that’s the cool thing about reading a new screenplay; when you read a screenplay where every time the writer has to make a decision, the decision is unexpected. That’s really special, that’s really rare, and that’s what caught my attention.”

You can catch the full interview about JUNO HERE.

Now the news for SF genre fans concerning Jason’s return to the series made popular by his famous director dad Ivan — don’t look for him to be bringing back his dad’s film series, “Ghostbusters,” anytime soon. “I’m asked that a lot, oddly, will I direct a third ‘Ghostbusters’ film, and no one would ever want to see my Ghostbusters; people will want it so damn badly out there, they’ll ask me. But my Ghostbusters would be no action, it’d be people talking about ghosts; so I think it’s probably better for the franchise that I not get involved. But it’s hard to imagine there being a third ‘Ghostbusters,’ the series stands so complete. I’d like to one day do a movie like my father’s, but it won’t be a ‘Ghostbusters.'”

Juno will open in theaters later this year.

Interviewer: Shmuel Reuven of JewReview.net