1. I am so lucky to genuinely love the Paper Towns movie. (If I didn’t, you’d know, because I wouldn’t be talking about it much.) Actors have to go and promote stuff regardless of how they feel about the movies–it’s in their contracts–and I was just thinking today about how miserable that whole process would be if you didn’t actually like the movie.
But I am really, really excited about this night-before-opening-night event, which will basically be a livestream beamed into a few hundred theaters that are premiering the movie at the same time. The whole cast will be together, and Nat and Alex will play songs, and Hank will hopefully be there, too, and I’m just really excited to celebrate the movie with so many of the people who made it and so many of the people who really care about the story. I’m really grateful to Fox for setting that up.
2. The Looking for Alaska movie has been such a long and at times tortuous road in the past 10 years since Paramount acquired the rights. To be honest, a lot of times I’ve wished I could get the rights back to prevent there from ever being a movie, because the story is so personal and I know it’s also an important story to lots of readers, and I don’t want to mess up their relationship with the book or its characters.
But then I also can’t really wish that in good conscience, because the Alaska movie deal was the most important money we ever made–it allowed us to move to New York so Sarah could go to grad school and pursue the career of her dreams. So a lot of times in the past decade I’ve felt like having to deal with the possibility of a movie was, you know, the price of that particular deal with the devil.
But I find myself now actually excited about the movie. I think Weber and Neustadter (the same people who adapted TFIOS and Paper Towns) wrote an amazing script, and Wyck and Isaac will help produce it like they did for the other movies, and now we have a director I can feel genuinely excited about. Becca gets Alaska–she wrote me this letter that just made it clear to me that she gets it way deep down, and if you’ve seen her movie Electrick Children you’ll know she has a really cool visual imagination. I am not by nature optimistic, but I think it could be a really great movie. So yay for Becca!!!
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