John Green's 'Paper Towns' movie adaptation greenlit
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After completing its adaptation of the John Green novel The Fault In Our Stars, Fox 2000 has made a deal for the 2008 Green novel Paper Towns, and it is working on bringing bring back together not only the producers and the screenwriters for another go but also one of the stars. Paper Towns will be built around actor-singer Nat Wolff, who co-stars in The Fault In Our Stars and stars in the upcoming Palo Alto. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are going to adapt, and Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen are producing. The scribes will be exec producers.
Fox will release the Josh Boone-directed The Fault In Our Stars on June 6, with Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort starring with Wolff. The scribe team wrote (500) Days Of Summer and The Spectacular Now, which Woodley also starred in. Fox 2000′s Elizabeth Gabler and Erin Siminoff are behind this, as they were The Fault In Our Stars.
Paper Towns takes place in Orlando, but this is far from a Disney World ride. The protagonist is Quentin, a young man who shared a jarring experience with his neighbor Margo: They found a man who committed suicide. They grew apart, but one night he finds her at his bedroom window, dressed like a ninja. She enlists him in a campaign to get revenge on people who’ve hurt her. Next day, she vanishes as he is left to ponder the ramifications of the evening. Then he begins getting clues from her and has to follow them. The project originally was set with Mandate and Mr. Mudd, but they parted ways over creative differences. Obviously Green had a good experience at Fox 2000, where Gabler has always been author-friendly. (source)
Stoked for this. The movie was in development hell for a few years after previous attempts to adapt the novel for the big screen failed due to creative differences between the writers and John Green. Paper Towns is personally my least favourite John Green novel but it could still make a for a great movie.
i kinda love paper towns (the sequence with margo and quentin in the beginning and the entire road trip section towards the end are gold) . not as much as will grayson will grayson and looking for alaska but i prefer it to the fault in our stars (well written but too schmaltzy for me towards the end) and its way better than an abundance of katherines.
can nat wolff act though?
one of my all time favorite books im a bit nervous for this tho, im not sure how well it will translate into a film since the road trip scene takes up about 2/3 of the book
im a bit nervous for this tho, im not sure how well it will translate into a film since the road trip scene takes up about 2/3 of the book