Good news for fans of weepy of the year The Fault in Our Stars. It's been announced today that another book from author John Green, Looking for Alaska, will be turned into a movie.
Actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley is on board to adapt Green's bestseller, with the author confirming the big news on Twitter:
"So excited to announce that the brilliant filmmaker Sarah Polley will be writing and directing a film adaptation of Looking for Alaska. I'm a HUGE fan of Sarah's movies, and her ideas about Looking for Alaska are really wonderful, and I am SO VERY EXCITED," Green told his 2.7 million followers.
The massive success of The Fault in Our Stars has shot author John Green into the Hollywood limelight
Polley starred in Dawn of the Dead but has also got behind the camera for films like the Oscar nominated Away From Her and Take This Waltz. Her last project was Stories We Tell, the award-winning documentary about her search for the truth behind her family.
Looking for Alaska the movie has actually been in development since 2005 when Paramount executives bought the rights, the same year the novel hit shelves. But it's only after the huge success of this year's TFIOS that the momentum has picked up again.
Fans are calling for Dylan O'Brien to play Miles (WENN)
So with Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort brilliantly bringing Hazel and Augustus to life for TFIOS, who will star in Looking for Alaska?
The film needs someone who can play 16-year-old boy Miles aka Pudge, with the story following his adventures in an Alabama boarding school. Fans of the book have Teen Wolf star Dylan O'Brien in mind for the lead, but others have pleaded with filmmakers to consider Nat Wolff, who starred in TFIOS and is set to play the lead in another Green movie adaptation Paper Towns.
Will Kaya Scodelario play Alaska? (WENN)
Emma Watson's The Perks of Being a Wallflower co-star Logan Lerman has also popped up on fans' wishlists. As for the female lead Alaska Young, the Brit Skins actress Kaya Scodelario is a favourite.
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