John Green talks TFIOS in interview with Zulkey

Please note: The interview is from before the start of filming!

Zulkey talked to John about the MTV Movie Awards, his homestate Alabama and TFIOS movie.

You said, "The girl behind The Devil Wears Prada is going to find out exactly what the devil wears when her time comes." But the joke's on you, John, because she came out with a sequel to the book. The question is, did you enjoy the movie, The Devil Wears Prada? And what's the most current update, large or small, on theFault In Our Stars movie?

I did like the movie! Why was I such a jerk to that woman? Why was I always so snarky about everyone? I wish her well with the sequel, and I will probably read it.

As for the TFiOS movie, it is supposed to start filming August 26th, so I guess it is really going to happen? I try not to get ahead of myself, and things could always fall apart, but at this point it looks very likely that they're at least going to film a movie, which is really exciting. I like all the people involved in the movie a lot, and they all seem to care very deeply about the book. It's been a wondrously positive experience, which is not something I can say about every time one of my books has attracted interest from Hollywood people.

DEFINITELY check out the whole amazing interview at the source.

We asked you guys who you would love to see as Peter Van Houten and you answered!

We asked people on twitter who they would love to see as Peter Van Houten and we got some really great names! Can't wait to see if the "real" Van Houten is among them!

Robin Williams: IIIIIII (7)
Paul Giamatti: IIIIII (6)
Jim Broadbent: IIII (4)

Ian McKellen: II (2)
Jack Nicholson: II (2)
Clint Eastwood: II (2)
Philip Seymour Hoffman: II (2)

Donald Sutherland: I (1)
Mads Mikkelsen: I (1)
Peter Capaldi: I (1)
Leonardo DiCaprio: I (1)
Hugh Laurie: I (1)
Liam Neeson: I (1)
Mark Ruffalo: I (1)
Woody Harrelson: I (1)
Robert DeNiro: I (1)
Rutger Hauer: I (1)
Matt Berry: I (1)

Please notice that we are in no way affliated with the production or casting so we do not know anything about the real casting. Iur guess is as good as yours.

CASTING NEWS: We have our Patrick!!

John Green just announced on twitter that Mike Birbiglia will play Patrick (the ball-less Support Group Leader) in the TFIOS Movie! EXCITING!

John Green and Mike Birbiglia just had the great conversation about testicles

Day 3 of TFIOS Filming: Some New Team Members and a Sandwich

John Green introduced some new team members on his tumblr:

This is Kelley and Lee from the props team on the TFiOS film. They researched everything from Hazel’s oxygen tank to ambulance license plates.

Without spoiling anything, they used ideas and designs from young cancer survivors, tracked down or fabricated an astonishing variety of props, and generally made Hazel’s world look and feel real.

John played basketball with Ansel. Ansel won. 

Ansel apparently schooled John on his own book

John continued bonding with 8-year-old over Instagram video. Also it rained on set.

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE COMMENTS

It would seem that all of us are uncertain and frustrated by the situation in Syria.  I think, but I really do not know, that making no military moves is the least bad option, but I am painfully aware that it is not I and my family who are being slaughtered, whether by conventional weapons or by unconventional weapons.  Perhaps the only reasonable course of action is to accept the fact that America at this moment can do nothing useful or likely to succeed, and then instead of promptly forgetting about the region, work to make a fundamental change in the purposes that America pursues in the world.  If we were to do this successfully, it might then be that in twenty years we could help to bring about a set of circumstances in which we were able to use our wealth and power for good.

However, since the entire spectrum of American politics from extreme right to progressive left has, for seventy years, pursued fundamentally the wrong foreign policy, the prospect of making a real alteration in that policy seems slender indeed.  If it weren't, Noam Chomsky would be Secretary of State [so to speak.]

IN MEMORIAM

While we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, let us not forget that fifty years ago yesterday, the great William Edward Burghardt Du Bois died in Ghana.  Du Bois was, I would judge, the greatest American social scientist [not the greatest Black social scientist ], a brilliant historian of Reconstruction and urban life, a central figure in  the organization of African-Americans, and, in the end, an outcast from the land of his birth.  I cherish the honor of having served for sixteen years in a university department that bears his name.

John on the movie set!

So, as we all know John is currently on the TFIOS Movie set and as promised he vlogged from the set! 

We get some Shailene, some Ansel (who paints miniatures), some Sam (with Laura Dern in the background?), some Wyck, some Scott and Michael, some Josh and lots of excited John!