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There comes a time when we all look for
inspiration, sometimes it comes from within, or a gesture from another
person, and sometimes where you least expect it. I always try and live
by the motto, you only live once. As I've said time and time again, we
only have one shot at this, so make it count. Its a blessing when you
find that little bit of inspiration or reminder to truly embrace this
life, even when you weren't even looking for it...
A friend of mine told me I had to read The Fault in Our Stars. And
because I'm old fashion, and still love sifting through the pages of a
book, I bought it the next day. Well, there it was INSPIRATION, staring
me in the face page after page. This book isn't just about two amazing
kids, who happen to have cancer. its about life, living, embracing the
moment, and about love. A love that has no limits, a love that knows no
sickness...just a raw love, one that changes you.
Of course I cried, flipped a page,and cried some more. Not just
because you knew what the inevitable was going to be, but the sheer
beauty of it's message. Is it better to have loved and lost, then to
never have loved at all? YES!!!
I saw the movie last night, and without disappointment, I've never
experienced a book to film adaptation as spot on as TFIOS. These
incredible actors, took this amazing story above and beyond
expectations. The story, their performance ripped right through me, and I
fell in love again and again...Maybe it was slowly at first, then all
at once...
This isn't a movie review, so much as it is a message to please
see this film. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and maybe
it'll inspire you. We are here but a fleeting moment, so LOVE hard, and
fight HARD...
To John Green, and the entire cast, thank you for this book and this movie. It truly captured my heart.
By the time Shailene Woodley was born in 1991, her "Fault in Our Stars" co-star Willem Dafoe had racked up 15 years in the acting biz — and an Academy Award nomination to boot. But during a visit to TODAY Thursday, Dafoe said he doesn’t mind the generation gap one bit.
“The truth is, it’s wonderful,” the actor said of sharing the screen with Woodley, 20-year-old Ansel Elgort and 19-year-old Nat Wolff in the new film.
Laughing, he added, “There’s an optimism and a fresh energy that sometimes you can’t find with people of my age.”
“The hardened cynic,” TODAY's Willie Geist joked.
That’s certainly true of Dafoe’s character in the film. He plays Peter Van Houten, a bitterly reclusive author hiding out in Amsterdam.
Make no mistake, though: Dafoe can do silly material, too. Later this month he’ll take to the New York stage with actor-choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov in the absurdist dark comedy “The Old Woman.” And he confirmed to TODAY that he’ll have a role in “Finding Dory,” the much-awaited sequel to “Finding Nemo.”
“It’s in the works,” he said. “We’ve started already.”
Lucie Jansch / Brooklyn Academy of Music
Willem Dafoe with Mikhail Baryshnikov in "The Old Woman," a vaudevillian drama hitting the New York stage this month
The fourth TODAY Book Club pick is "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. Share your thoughts about Green's beloved young adult novel by joining the TODAY Book Club community, a fresh and interactive discussion series, and tweeting with #TFiOSTODAY.
The cast of "The Fault in Our Stars" will also be answering questions and sharing photos and videos on TODAY's social media accounts, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Vine, beginning today through Friday, May 9. Fans can start the conversation with stars Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff and author John Green on Twitter today from 5-6 p.m. ET using #TFiOSTODAY.
It has the ingredients of many a page-turner: with teen love and tragedy, John Green’s novel “The Fault in Our Stars” has sold seven million copies and is set to make its film debut in June, starring new Hollywood darling Shailene Woodley. And to top it all off, the novel is the latest read for TODAY’s Book Club.
“The Fault in Our Stars” tells the story of 16-year-old Hazel Lancaster, a teen with incurable cancer who meets and falls in love with another patient. The tale was inspired by some of Green’s experiences working at a children’s hospital as a student chaplain.
“I was only 21. It was very difficult. I saw a lot of kids die,” Green told Willie Geist at his office in Indianapolis. “I spent time … with their parents. It was really difficult for me to be hopeful in that. It kept coming back to me. I kept wanting to write about it.”
Green finally did write about it after meeting Esther Earl, a 15-year-old fan battling cancer. She died a year later.
“Once I understood that a short life can also be a good life, it kind of became possible to write the story,” Green said.
This is the fifth novel for Green, 35, who is no stranger to tackling teen romance in the face of adversity. In addition to “The Fault in Our Stars,” his books “Looking for Alaska,” “Paper Towns” and “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” all debuted on the New York Times best-seller list.
And despite legions of screaming fans who follow him to book signings (Green “humble brags” he’s signed his name 150,000 times), the author says he’s still starstruck when it comes to the new film.
“At no point did I have a poker face,” he said about being on set. “The director would be debating, ‘Was this take better than this take?’ And I would just be, like, ‘Guys, let's calm down for a second and think about how awesome this is. Shailene Woodley is in our movie. This is awesome!”
It’s indeed awesome, particularly for a guy who considers himself a nerd and spreads the message that being a nerd is cool. Green connects with his young fans, dubbed “Nerdfighters,” via four video series, including one called the “Vlog Brothers,” in which he and his brother Hank cover everything from foreign affairs to goat mating.
“I want to celebrate intellectualism,” he said. “We only get to be here on this planet for a little while, and we have the chance to pay attention or we can choose to be distracted. And when we pay attention is when I think we're really fulfilled and happy and excited.”
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that 'The Fault in Our Stars' tour is coming to several cities around the country to promote the movie. The book was fantastic the movie is slated to be amazing, I mean how could it not Shailene is starring in it as Hazel Grace.
We have been thinking what if we could sit down and talk to the stars and the author and ask them any questions, what would they be, like...
With the subject matter, Cancer, was the set kept light in between takes?
Had you read the book before getting cast in the role?
What was your reaction to being cast?
Knowing each other from that other famous movie, {grins} did that help with the connection between you both on set, I mean working so closely with each other not on one, but two movies.
Shai - What lessons did you if any did you learn from Hazel?
Ansel - Did you take anything away from playing Gus?
I know if I could sit down with Hazel and Gus what I would want to know, but alas Gus and Hazel are just the characters in this amazing story.
So if you could sit down with Shai, Ansel and of course the amazingly talented writer John what would you want to ask them about the book, or the movie.
In a new video posted by MTV, Shailene Woodley can be seen crying as she gets her long and luscious locks chopped off for her role as cancer-stricken teen Hazel Grace Lancaster in the upcoming flick, based on the best-selling young adult novel by John Green.
In the clip, Woodley is clearly emotional as her hair stylist takes a scissor to her thick locks. "I have to see it! I have to see it!" she shouts as her stylist hands her chunks of hair. "Oh my God! I might cry so hard you guys."
Forget — for just a moment — about summer’s spandex-clad superheroes and cities being destroyed by robots and monsters. The Fault in Our Stars, out June 6 and adapted from the 2012 best-selling John Green novel, stands to be the must-see love story of the season.
In this week’s Entertainment Weekly, Sara Vilkomerson reports from The Fault in Our Stars set in Pittsburgh and explores how TFIOS — which tells the love story of two teenagers who meet in a cancer support group — became an unlikely YA phenomenon. “I tried to write the funniest, most honest love story I could about these kids who were living with a difficult disease. I never thought it would be popular,” says Green. “I certainly never imagined it would be a movie.”
Luckily, one studio decided to take a chance on the project. Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler remembers how producer Wyck Godfrey convinced her to make the film. “Wyck called me and said, ‘You can’t pass on this. You have to do this,” she says. “I said, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ And he said, ‘Because. It makes you remember when you were a teenager and you were in love for the first time and you didn’t want to hang up the phone.’”
With a modest budget of $12 million, every piece of the TFIOS puzzle was carefully considered — from hiring director Josh Boone to casting rising stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort in the lead roles of Hazel and Augustus. Green, who was on set for just about every day of shooting, found the experience an unexpected pleasure. “Shailene has become Hazel to me. Ansel has become Gus,” he says. “The feeling I’ve had consistently is this deep weird joy.”
For more on The Fault in Our Stars — including interviews with director Josh Boone and stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort — pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands Friday, May 2.
After getting a full blast of Theo James' rumored girlfriend Shailene Woodley's and Ansel Elgort's love story in "The Fault in Our Stars" trailer a new extended version was released showing even more of Hazel's heartbreaking story.(Photo : Instagram/John Green)
After getting a full blast of Theo James' rumored girlfriend Shailene Woodley's and Ansel Elgort's love story in "The Fault in Our Stars" trailer a new extended version was released showing even more of Hazel's heartbreaking story.
In the film adaptation that is based off of John Green's bestselling young adult novel we following the doomed love story of two teens.
According to Us Weekly, the novel has already obtained a band of loyal followers that are excited to see Woodley and Elgort shake off their hardcore "Divergent" characters and take on the roles of Hazel and Augustus respectively.
The extended trailer features flashes of several significant scenes from the book which includes the likes of Augustus explaining why he carries an unlit cigarette in his mouth, the couple's romantic date in Amsterdam and the egging of Isaac's ex-girlfriend's car.
From the new clip combined with the narration in which Hazel compared falling in love to falling asleep, slowly at first and then all at once, devoted fans of the book should be happy with the treat until the full length film hits theaters.
For fans who saw "Divergent" they will see Shailene Woodley take a step back from Tris to become a delicate flower or in Hazel's mind, a grenade. We will also see Ansel Elgort, who played her brother become her confident, charismatic boyfriend.
Check out the trailer below and let us know what you think of "The Fault in Our Stars."
Get ready for the feels... The book was amazing and the trailer hits on all the points we need to see in this soon to be released movie.
If you haven't read the book, go run and grab it NOW and read it. There is still time and the book is a must read. It's a heart warming, must be told story. That has you thinking, feeling and wanting to live...
The Fault in Our Stars is a contemporary teen romance in the way that Paris is a city in Europe and ice cream is a type of dessert. It tells the story of Hazel Grace and Augustus, Midwestern “cancer kids” who meet at a support group and connect over their fatalistic sarcasm and mutual attraction. They've both been maimed by their illnesses—Augustus has had a leg amputated, and Hazel needs oxygen tubes to support her damaged lungs—and though they delight in mocking the usual cancer narratives of “miracle” drugs and stoic, saintly patients, their story doesn't dodge the cruelties of juvenile disease. It’s not all grim: There’s fumbling teen sex in hospital beds and friends who do and don’t understand, and a pickled literary recluse in Amsterdam whom the two cash in a Make-a-Wish Foundation gift to visit.
More than 7 million hardcover copies of Fault (a paperback was released in March) have circulated widely—among middle school English classes, from teen to tween, from child to parent to grandparent, and beyond. A movie adaptation is coming out in early June, further initiating anyone not yet familiar with the tale and its author, John Green, a 36-year-old writer who lives in Indianapolis. If you know what to look for, you’ll find Fault references everywhere in the teen/tween universe: on Instagram, in school lockers and libraries, on T-shirts and text sign-offs.
The Newcomers: As Augustus Waters in the film version of bestselling 'The Fault in Our Stars,' Ansel Elgort of 'Divergent' finds himself on a new level of fandom.
Actor Ansel Elgort, from the film "The Fault in Our Stars," at the Four Seasons Hotel. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times / April 14, 2014)
Having already gone through the social media wringer when he was cast in the young-adult franchise "Divergent," Ansel Elgort thought he had a pretty good idea about how passionate and protective readers can be about their favorite books. Then he won the role of Augustus Waters, the love interest in the movie adaptation of John Green's bestselling romance "The Fault in Our Stars," and the 20-year-old actor realized he had crossed into an uncharted realm.
Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort) are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them -- and us -- on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, based upon the number-one bestselling novel by John Green, explores the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love.
It was just announced that the show will air a sneak peek of The Fault in Our Stars, Shailene and Ansel‘s highly anticipated film set to be released on June 6.
As a promo for the announcement that the two will be presenting, MTV also released some never before seen footage of The Fault in Our Stars – check it out below!
Be sure to tune into the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday (April 13) on MTV. And stay tuned to Just Jared for the best red carpet coverage on the web!
Looks like The Fault In Our Stars is looking to rejuvenate their sales. The film adaptation, which is coming out on June 6, will probably bring more attention to the novel by John Green, or at least that’s what it seems like the publishers are hoping for. The tie-in film release for The Fault In Our Stars’ paperback was just announced.
This means instead of the original cover for The Fault In Our Stars, the actors, Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort will be featured on the cover of millions of new editions to be published. On the new paperback cover the two are seen nestling their heads next to each other while facing in opposite directions. Some fans have said that the placement of the actors’ two heads resemble the clouds on the original hardcover.
