Josh Boone answers question about the script and shooting schedule

Our director Josh Boone answered some questions on his tumblr about the script, saying it is "filled almost entirely with beautiful quotes from the book" and about the filming schedule, saying they'll go to Amsterdam in October.

Shailene Woodley talks TFIOS with Huffington Post Live

Shailene is currently promoting her latest movie 'The Spectacular Now' and stopped by the Huffington Post to talk about it. 

She talks about John Green, saying "he's a genius" and that she wrote him a lengthy email saying she's "obsessed with this book" and saying she "would do anything to be a part of it.".

She also says the script contains "lots of truth".

  

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TFIOS screenwriters talk about TFIOS and The Spectacular Now

The screenwriters of "The Spectacular Now" and "The Fault In Our Stars," Michael Weber and Scott Neustadter talked to fansites like Page To Premiere about adapting both films for screen, having Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller act out their words and more.

They spoke briefly about TFIOS:

You guys also wrote the screenplay for The Fault in Our Stars and I was wondering since you saws Shailene Woodley work with you’re The Spectacular Now script did you write The Fault in Our Stars script in part to play into Shailene’s strengths?

Writers: No. She was a big fan of the book and our script. It seemed like there was a false story going around that it was predetermined that she was going to be Hazel Grace but she actually did audition and beat out a couple hundred people! I’m not even sure we had met Shailene when we wrote the script for The Fault in Our Stars. It’s great. We love that we are working with her again. She’s fantastic but TFIOS script credit is obviously to an amazing book.

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Writers: We have been really lucky. We have been doing this run of adaptations and whether it’s Tim Tharp with The Spectacular Now or John Green with The Fault in Our Stars they have all been very supportive and open to what we are doing.

Check out the rest of the insightful interview at PageToPremiere.com

A GOOD READ

Five days ago, Robert Gallagher, a philosopher who teaches at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, sent me an email to which he attached a paper he has published on Aristotle's economic theories.  [Incommensurability in Aristotle's Theory of Reciprocal Justice, in The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 20(4), 2012, pp. 667-701].  It would be a wild overstatement to say that this is not my area of expertise.  Prior to reading his article, I knew absolutely nothing about it at all.  A good deal of Gallagher's discussion focuses on the Nichomachean Ethics, and a quick look at my copy shows that at some point I read the relevant passages pretty closely [if marginalia are any indication], but that was maybe sixty years ago, and I haven't been back since.  So Gallagher's discussion was terra nova to me.

At first, I found the essay somewhat impenetrable, but after a while I realized that it was actually extremely suggestive, in at least several different ways.  First of all, Aristotle is struggling to understand economic exchange from the perspective of a slave-owning utterly non-capitalist society, and what emerges from his discussion, and Gallagher's analysis of it, is that economic exchange, for Aristotle, is necessarily an exchange of unequal and incommensurable things between socially unequal individuals.  This makes it difficult to understand how such exchange can exist and be justified.  Aristotle's answer, to put it as simply as I can, is that the stronger and higher status individual loses materially in the exchange but is compensated by receiving honor in return.  Second, Gallagher makes it clear that Aristotle thinks the purpose of society is to supply the wants of those in need.  All of which leads Gallagher to conclude in deliberately dramatic and anachronistic fashion:  "For Aristotle, reciprocity is established through meeting the needs of all parties:  of the lesser for goods, of the superior for honour.  The result is his own, peculiar form of the proposition:  from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." 

As you can imagine, thatmade me sit up and take notice.  This is not quite as titillating as the latest tidbits about Anthony Wiener's rampant narcissism, to be sure, but I recommend the article to you nonetheless.

Josh Boone is currently location scouting in Pittsburgh

He informed us on twitter saying "In a van location scouting with TFIOS team!"

Cast, Crew and John Green react to the casting of Nat Wolff and Laura Dern

John Green to Nat Wolff "You are so great! I am so excited!"

John Green reacts by congratulating Nat and Laura and explaining "I know a lot of you wanted me to play Hazel's mom. I did, too. But when a brilliant Academy Award-nominated actress is interested...yeah."

Screenplay writer Scott Neustadter answered "We tried. @realjohngreen from the screenplay: "Hazel's Mom (tall, brown hair, glasses, male)..."

To which John Green replied "That made me actually laugh out loud."

 Ansel Elgort tweets "Congrats to my main man @natandalex!! I can't wait to start filming! #tfios"

Nat Wolff replies "We're gonna tear Pittsburg up."

Josh Boone commented on his tumblr:

Be sure to follow Nat Wolff, Ansel Elgort, John Green and Scott Neustadter on twitter.

Casting Update: Nat Wolff as Isaac - Laura Dern as Hazel's mother

After Nat Wolff himself hinted so in a previous interview with MTV, it's now for sure that he's been cast as Isaac. Also, Laura Dern has joined the cast as Hazel's mother - exciting!

Here's what Hypable reports:

"Actor Nat Wolff and actress Laura Dern are joining The Fault in Our Stars movie based on the book by John Green.

Wolff will play Isaac, Augustus’ best friend. The actor had hinted at his involvement with the film several weeks ago. He is no stranger to working with director Josh Boone; he starred in his first movie Stuck in Love which hit theaters last month. Wolff had originally auditioned to play Gus..

Dern will play Hazel’s mother. The actress most recently starred in HBO’s Enlightened, which we were sorry to see get canceled after season 2."

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