If you were a teenager about a decade ago, and one prone to spending too much time on Tumblr, you may have also had a slight John Green obsession – I know I did. I devoured all of his books, but Looking for Alaska was always the one to beat, being his first, and being so critically acclaimed.
Well, get ready to be transported back to your teens, because Looking for Alaska is the latest John Green book to be adapted for the screen. Unlike The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, though, Alaska is being adapted for the small screen — your computer screen, to be exact, which seems fitting for a book by a man made famous by YouTube.
Looking for Alaska will be released on Hulu on October 18th, which is still a while away, but here’s what we know about the adaptation so far.
It will star Charlie Plummer, who played John Paul Getty III in Ridley Scott’s All The Money In The World, as Miles Halter, and Kristine Froseth, from Sierra Burgess Is A Loser and The Society as Alaska Young.
god is a woman and her name is kristine froseth pic.twitter.com/sRZ2eQgO5b
— gareth visser love bot (@garethgrizz) May 18, 2019
It’s being produced by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who you might remember gifted the world with The O.C. and Gossip Girl, as well as the Dynasty reboot more recently.
John Green is also one of the executive producers, so the show will probably end up being a fairly faithful adaptation of the book.
Fourteen years after the book’s debut, are audiences still as hyped up about Looking for Alaska as everyone was on Tumblr ten years ago?
A cursory scroll through Twitter suggests that people are excited for the adaptation, and it’s not just people in their 20s and 30s who read the book when it first came out, but younger fans, too.
After the audience viewed clips of the new Hulu original ‘Looking for Alaska,’ author John Green is joined by producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage as well as the show’s stars Kristine Froseth and Charlie Plummer to discuss the book’s adaptation to the screen #BookCon pic.twitter.com/LgYzxcvOVx
— Children's Bookshelf (@PWKidsBookshelf) June 1, 2019
Fans in attendance at BookCon in New York were treated with clips from the show, which is still filming, based on casting calls posted on social media.
Eeeeep we’re at the John Green/Looking For Alaska panel!! We saw a preview of the show and it looks amazing ?? #bookexpo19 pic.twitter.com/xWDrR4omQN
— The Book Bratz (@thebookbratz) June 1, 2019
We’ll just have to wait until October to see if the latest adaptation of a John Green novel lives up to everyone’s expectations. Here’s hoping it’s more like The Fault In Our Stars than Paper Towns.