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Paper Towns (film)

film · in 57 videos (2008–2024)

The film adaptation of Paper Towns, whose rights went to the makers of Juno, with John writing the early screenplay drafts. Directed by Jake Schreier, it was filmed in North Carolina and came out on July 24th; in 2015 John, Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne promoted it in eight countries.

Adapts: Paper Towns

Videos by year: 2008: 1 · 2009: 9 · 2013: 1 · 2014: 16 · 2015: 22 · 2016: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2024: 1

Also known as: the Paper Towns movie

Threads

Also named in the threads: Looking for Alaska film adaptation in development (2007) · Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007) · Paper Towns movie option by Mandate and Mr. Mudd (2008) · The Fault in Our Stars film adaptation (2012) · P4A 2014 edition · Pizzamas 2014 edition: the 12 Days of Pizzamas with a vlogbrothers video every weekday · VidCon 2015 edition

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Paper Towns (24) · The Fault in Our Stars (film) (14) · Looking for Alaska (novel) (7) · New York City (5) · Tumblr (4) · The Fault in Our Stars (5) · Los Angeles (3) · Indiana (2) · Sarah Urist Green (5) · Europe (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2008

  • 2008-10-30 (said on 2008-10-29, implied) · Hank is Late (dr horrible) — announcement: Hank says John may be writing the Paper Towns screenplay for the people who made Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. (hedged) — 00:01:52

2009

  • 2009-01-27 · Before Looking for Alaska… — John signs off saying he has to go back to writing the Paper Towns screenplay. — 00:02:56
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John does not know whether Paper Towns will be a movie; he is writing the screenplay, so it is up to him whether it is good enough. (hedged) — 00:00:46
  • 2009-03-10 · How to Get Girls to Like You — John says his first draft of the Paper Towns screenplay is due in three days, so he lacks time to break the Question Tuesday world record. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-03-18 · Lighting Candles for Rwanda — Hank has heard John's screenplay is finished and going over well with his 'Hollywood overlord'; he is excited about it and about seeing Netherlands footage. (hedged) — 00:02:14
  • 2009-03-24 · Peeps! Prom! Puppy! — John has a busy week turning around two revisions, one on a book he is writing and one on a movie, so eating 300+ Peeps in a day would hurt his productivity. — 00:00:24
  • 2009-04-21 · Question Tuesday — John: Paper Towns may become a movie: the people who made Juno optioned the rights with John writing the screenplay, which he is working on now. (hedged) — 00:02:04
  • 2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — John says the Paper Towns movie rights were acquired by Mr. Mudd and Mandate (makers of Juno); he wrote the first screenplay draft and is starting the first big revision. — 00:02:08
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John says he is writing a screenplay for the people who made Juno, and at the end leaves to work on the Paper Towns screenplay. — 00:00:47
  • 2009-11-17 · Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition — John says he is 10,000 words behind on NaNoWriMo because of the Paper Towns screenplay revision, and behind on the screenplay because of NaNoWriMo. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • …and 1 statement more in 2009 — all statements of 2009

2013

2014

  • 2014-09-05 · REUNION TUESDAY! FRIDAY! WHATEVER! — Hank: Asked who plays Margo in the Paper Towns movie, Hank jokingly claims the role, purely for the money, as 'the Nick Cage of John Green movies'. (joke) — 00:01:16
  • 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — announcement: John says the Paper Towns film looks really likely to happen: they have hired a director, Jake Schreier, who made Robot & Frank. (hedged) — 00:00:54
  • 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — John is in North Carolina for the Paper Towns movie; filming starts in a week, he slept in director Jake Schreier's apartment and had pizza with Cara Delevingne. — 00:00:01
    • The table read went great; John is exhausted but so excited about the Paper Towns movie and grateful to everyone coming together to make it. — 00:03:09
  • 2014-11-04 · Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns — John: At 5:48 a.m. John says the Paper Towns movie starts filming in about an hour and 12 minutes, and he is extremely excited and nervous. — 00:00:00
    • John reports that day one of filming is finished and going well; producer Wyck Godfrey cheers. — 00:02:02
    • One scene shot that day was the first part of Paper Towns John ever wrote, about nine years ago: little Q and Margo biking up to a dead body; he found it weird and wonderful and cried a little. — 00:02:37
  • 2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Halston Sage's favourite scene in the movie or book is the bathtub scene with Q. — 00:00:27
  • 2014-11-18 · How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again — announcement: Hank: Because of the Paper Towns shoot dates, the Project for Awesome is moving up this year (2014), to December 12 and 13. — 00:03:50
  • 2014-11-19 · The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 — announcement: Nat Wolff announces the P4A will be on December 12 and 13, not its usual time around his December 17 birthday, because that is the end of the Paper Towns shoot. — 00:01:06
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says the Paper Towns movie finished shooting a couple of days ago, so he is home, tired and a little sick, and grateful to everyone who worked on it. — 00:00:02
    • John says six years later, largely thanks to readers still caring about Q, Margo and Agloe, Hollywood made a movie; he met the people he'd imagined and visited Agloe with them. — 00:02:24
  • …and 37 statements more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

2015

  • 2015-01-04 · The Best Worst Thing — John: Nervous while watching the draw on the Paper Towns set, John shouted and ruined a take of the movie when AFC Wimbledon drew Liverpool. (playful) — 00:01:25
  • 2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth — John: After an entertaining game in which he had to root against a Steven Gerrard goal, John says AFC Wimbledon did themselves proud and technically lost. — 00:02:28
  • 2015-03-10 · Travel Tips (and Paper Towns Movie Updates) — announcement: John announces the Paper Towns movie's release date has moved to July 24th, the real date, on which he thinks it will really come out. (hedged) — 00:00:16
  • 2015-03-17 · What Are Paper Towns? — announcement: John says the Paper Towns trailer comes out on Thursday, which is why he is in the airport: he has to go be on The Today Show. — 00:00:23
  • 2015-04-14 · A Long Good Day — John: At a restaurant later with the real, complicated people who made The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, John kept thinking that they care for each other, especially when the cameras are off. — 00:03:14
  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — announcement: John: The Paper Towns film comes out in about 56 days in the US, at different times elsewhere; John will travel to support the release, at least to Brazil and the UK and probably other places. (hedged) — 00:02:58
  • 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John: Next week (week of 15 June 2015) John tours Europe with his wife and friends: a sold-out Berlin event on Tuesday June 16, meeting people outside a Paris bookstore Wednesday, London on Thursday (place and time to be determined). — 00:00:06
  • 2015-06-23 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff — John records Question Tuesday in the back of a movie theater in Berlin with Nat Wolff, who plays Q, and Cara Delevingne, who plays Margo Roth Spiegelman in the Paper Towns film. — 00:00:06
  • 2015-06-30 · Some News — announcement: John says he, Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff and Halston Sage will tour the US before the Paper Towns film comes out, in the states that won a Tumblr vote: Ohio, Texas and Indiana. — 00:00:41
  • 2015-07-14 · On Exhaustion — announcement: John: The Paper Towns movie opens July 24th; it already opened in Brazil with an amazing opening weekend, and the early reviews are great, a huge relief to John. — 00:01:15
  • 2015-07-28 · Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places — John says the Paper Towns movie is out in most of the world and thanks everyone who watched it and shared responses via Nerdfighteria's #wallofcow. — 00:03:29
  • 2015-07-31 · Why Paper Towns is Awesome — Hank was relieved: the movie is quite good and full of great moments; he laughed out loud, clutching Katherine, and the audience enjoyed it too. — 00:01:16
  • …and 80 statements more in 2015 — all statements of 2015

Also named in: Places I've Never Been

2016

Also named in: My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered!

2017

  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says they did it again with Paper Towns, and he then thought that had been a good run, since Paper Towns made less money. — 00:02:09
    • Isaac, producer of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, pointed out that obsessive thoughts are also non-linguistic, which didn't stop John writing the book. — 00:02:43

2020

  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John: Asked what he would do if AFC Wimbledon faced Liverpool, John says in a comment that they have, and it was strange and difficult. — creator comment

2022

Also named in: Hello! Meet Daisy!

2024

  • 2024-10-01 · On Fame and Chappell Roan — John's least favourite photo of himself is from the Paper Towns film premiere: on top of the world, rich and very famous, he was in the middle of a panic attack. — 00:00:12