She writes to him to find out more about the novel’s ambiguous ending. Weeks later, Augustus tells Hazel that he tracked down Van Houten’s assistant, Lidewij, and corresponded with Van Houten by email. Hazel explains that the mysterious author of the novel, Peter Van Houten (Willem Dafoe), went to Amsterdam after the novel was published and has not been seen since. After Augustus finishes the book, he expresses frustration at its abrupt ending (ends in the middle of a sentence). They keep in touch by text over the next few weeks and get closer. Hazel recommends “An Imperial Affliction”, a novel about a girl with cancer named Anna, who resembles her experience, and Augustus gives Hazel Counter Insurgence. He invites Hazel into his home, where they start their hobbies and agree to read each other’s favorite books. There Hazel meets Augustus Waters, a charming teenager who lost a leg to bone cancer, but has since apparently been cancer free. Believing she is depressed, her mother, Frannie, asks her to attend a weekly cancer patient support group to help her make friends with people who are going through the same thing. Hazel Grace Lancaster is a teenager living in Indianapolis, who has terminal thyroid cancer that has spread to the lungs. 1 at the box office during its opening week and having grossed more than $ 280 million worldwide against its $ 12 million budget. The film also proved to be commercially successful, thereby maintaining No. The film had a positive critical reception, with praise going to Woodley’s good performance throughout the film. The Fault in Our Stars was released on Jin Brazil, June 6 in the United States and June 19 in Portugal. Main shooting started on Augin Pittsburgh in the United States with a few additional days in Amsterdam in the Netherlands before it was completed on October 16, 2013. Woodley plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a cancer patient sixteen years old, who is forced by her parents to join a support group, where she later meets and falls in love with eighteen-year-old Augustus Waters who has an amputated leg, played by Elgort.ĭevelopment of The Fault in Our Stars began in January 2012 when Fox 2000, the division of 20th Century Fox, bought the rights to adapt the book for the cinema. The film stars Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, and Nat Wolff, with Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, and Willem Dafoe playing supporting roles. It gets nearly everything right and takes pride of place as arguably the best book-film adaptation in recent memory.The Fault in Our Stars ( bra The Fault in Our Stars ) is a romance film American of 2014 directed by Josh Boone, based on the book of the same name of John Green. Just about every popular young adult novel released in the last decade has found a home in cinemas, but The Fault In Our Stars is on another level to many of those films. It is currently registering an 82% score on critical aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes and is drawing rave reviews from audiences. Fortunately, it's a genuinely excellent film. Given all of the hype, it would be easy for the film to fall flat on its face. If early box office numbers - a $48m opening weekend - are repeated, it will soon be extending its success to the big screen. It is at least partially the fervent adoration of these fans that has helped The Fault In Our Stars to become a literary hit.
By virtue of the VlogBrothers channel he runs with his sibling Hank on YouTube, he has amassed thousands of supporters, known as Nerdfighters. The popularity of the story has been aided by the frankly remarkable fan following of John Green. Few books have the potential to make their readers laugh and cry in equal measure, but The Fault In Our Stars manages that feat on just about every page. It's a book that has touched the hearts of millions of readers and has had people of all ages reaching for a box of tissues. Based on John Green's bestseller, the film tells the story of teenage cancer sufferer Hazel (Shailene Woodley) who meets fellow patient Gus (Ansel Elgort) at a support group and falls in love with him. With the possible exception of the latest installment of The Hunger Games, the most highly-anticipated young adult novel adaptation of 2014 is The Fault In Our Stars.