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The Fault in Our Stars (film)

film · in 77 videos (2012–2026)

The film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars, optioned by Fox 2000, with Shailene Woodley as Hazel and Nat Wolff as Isaac. It came out on June 6th and won Best Movie; John's cameo was cut and survives as a DVD extra. John calls it a great book-to-movie experience, and it sold a ton of books.

Adapts: The Fault in Our Stars · Includes: The Fault in Our Stars trailer, The Night Before Our Stars

Videos by year: 2012: 3 · 2013: 18 · 2014: 25 · 2015: 7 · 2016: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2026: 2

Also known as: the TFIOS movie, TFiOS movie, The Fault in Our Stars movie

Threads

Also named in the threads: Looking for Alaska film adaptation in development (2007) · Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007) · Nerdfighter Book Club 2014 edition: Behind the Beautiful Forevers · Paper Towns film: production and release (2014) · P4A 2014 edition · VidCon Europe 2017 edition (Amsterdam, April 8-9): the first VidCon outside the US · John co-hosts a stop on Joe Biden's book tour and is struck by his listening

Often together

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

Hazel Grace Lancaster (15) · The Fault in Our Stars (39) · Fox 2000 Pictures (5) · Augustus Waters (9) · Paper Towns (film) (14) · celebrity (9) · Amsterdam (7) · New York City (8) · Los Angeles (5) · Sarah Urist Green (10)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2012

  • 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — John says he will be involved in the TFIOS movie in any way he can be helpful, but he is not a movie person. — 00:00:10
    • John says Fox 2000 optioned the movie rights to The Fault in Our Stars; hopefully they will make it, but it is too soon to get excited. (hedged) — 00:00:16
    • Asked who should play Hazel and Augustus, John says he knows nothing of contemporary actors (Drew Barrymore is still 17 in his mind) and asks who viewers would want. (playful) — 00:01:28
  • 2012-05-01 · Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands — announcement: John notes that the movie rights to The Fault in Our Stars were optioned by Fox 2000, and that the script is being written by the writers of (500) Days of Summer. — video description
    • John goes to get his movie deal notarized, calling it the day of the best errands ever; the description says it is the movie option for The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:23
  • 2012-06-05 · The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday — John: Asked whether he will cast nerdfighters in a Fault in Our Stars movie, John says if Fox makes it he will have exactly as much say in casting as viewers, and should not be trusted with it. — 00:02:27
    • John says if the movie is made casting will go as always: everyone is upset at the announcement, then sees the film and finds the actor perfect, as with Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss. (playful) — 00:02:47

2013

2014

2015

  • 2015-03-10 · Travel Tips (and Paper Towns Movie Updates) — announcement: John announces that Scott Neustadter and Mike Weber, who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, will write the Looking for Alaska script. — 00:01:09
    • John says the producers of both The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns have joined the Looking for Alaska project too. — 00:01:15
  • 2015-04-14 · A Long Good Day — John woke at 4:10 a.m. on Sunday and drove with Sarah to the Indianapolis airport, then flew five hours to Los Angeles for the MTV Movie Awards. — 00:00:01
    • John met up with Justice Smith, 'a.k.a. Radar', Alex Wolff and Nat Wolff at another hotel, and they drove to the awards. — 00:01:02
    • Shailene Woodley won best actress for her role in The Fault in Our Stars; her kindness about John in her speech made him cry, and Nat teased him for it. — 00:02:23
    • The Fault in Our Stars won Best Movie, and John made the acceptance speech, as everyone had urged, so that he could thank Esther. — 00:02:38
    • John says the award is not the Oscars but was 'our Oscars'; it was great to be there with Nat, Justice, Cara and Shai, grateful for The Fault in Our Stars while excited about Paper Towns. — 00:02:44
    • 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
  • 2015-04-28 · Is the Paper Towns Movie Like the Book? Thoughts on Adaptations — John calls the Paper Towns script by Mike Weber and Scott Neustadter, who wrote the Fault in Our Stars screenplay, brilliant because it captures both story and ideas; for him it created the same feelings. — 00:02:23
  • 2015-06-30 · Some News — announcement: John: Weber and Neustadter, screenwriters of the TFIOS and Paper Towns films, have written a Looking for Alaska script, and Becca Thomas, director of Electric Children, has been hired to direct, so the film will probably happen. (hedged) — 00:02:58
  • 2015-07-31 · Why Paper Towns is Awesome — Hank says The Fault in Our Stars film was the number one movie in America, beating a Tom Cruise movie. — 00:00:18
    • Hank says Paper Towns has been, by most measures, less successful than The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:00:49

Also named in: REUNION MINIGOLF, Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling

2016

  • 2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — John: Asked to six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon himself, John says he acted in The Fault in Our Stars movie (scene cut, but in the extended version) with Laura Dern, who was in Novocaine with Kevin Bacon. (playful) — 00:01:23
    • John admits this bums him out but reminds him how lucky he was with two great book-to-movie experiences; authors are almost never as welcomed into the process as he was with The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns. — 00:02:19
  • 2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars — John says The Fault in Our Stars kept selling, and in May 2012 he read an amazing screenplay adaptation and realized it might become a movie. — 00:01:14
    • By the time the movie started shooting in fall 2013, John was failing to write a book about teenage con artists; he spent almost a year on it before giving up. — 00:01:46
    • John remembers sobbing in a hotel room right after the movie came out, looking at hundreds of pages he realized would never be a book. — 00:01:55

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

2017

  • 2017-02-07 (said on 2017-02-02, implied) · Good News, YA Books, and Bears: It's Question Tuesday — John is very excited for VidCon Europe in April, partly because he hasn't been back to Amsterdam since the TFIOS movie came out and will visit his old haunts. — 00:01:48
  • 2017-04-14 · ★★★★ Review: The TFiOS Bench - Amsterdam — recommendation: Hank passes on Maharlika's tip: recreate the famous movie poster by photographing the bench from the other side of the canal, as the film did. — 00:01:57
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says he almost didn't sell the film rights to The Fault in Our Stars, partly after bad experiences in Hollywood and partly because the book was very close to him. — 00:01:05
    • John says he sold the rights and got very lucky: Elizabeth and Erin at Fox 2000 were perfect stewards, with amazing producers, screenwriters and cast, and a movie he really loved. — 00:01:54
    • 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

2018

  • 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — John's cameo was cut from the TFIOS movie because, he says, he is a terrible actor; the scene is available as a DVD extra and on YouTube. (playful) — 00:01:54
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — John: Fans were very mad when Nat Wolff was cast as Isaac, who is blond in the book, and John was concerned too, but Wolff turned out to be the perfect Isaac. — 00:01:06
  • 2018-10-31 · The Looking for Alaska Thing — John says no one would fund it, so the Alaska movie was dead until 2014, when The Fault in Our Stars became a very successful movie. — 00:02:05
    • John says everyone on The Fault in Our Stars movie, studio included, cared so much about the book that the process made him really want an Alaska movie. — 00:02:16

2019

  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John says he can't act: he is such a bad actor that his cameo in the film adaptation of his book was cut, though he kept the wardrobe and wears it now as 'Girl's Father'. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — In a comment John notes that his best days were not career events like the TFIOS movie release but time spent with people he has long been lucky to love. — creator comment

2020

  • 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John was struck that Biden wanted to talk about Esther more than about the success of the book or the movie. — 00:01:27

2021

  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: The Amsterdam bench where a scene of The Fault in Our Stars film was shot now has hundreds of Google reviews; John's favorite, three stars, reads in full: it is a bench. — 00:09:40

2022

  • 2022-04-05 · Celebrities I've Met and Whether I'd Vote for Them??? — John met Laura Dern through the Fault in Our Stars movie and they became friends; he calls her a great mom, person and actor. — 00:00:58
    • Dwayne Johnson handed John an MTV Movie Award in about 2015; John doesn't remember their backstage chat, so distracted was he by The Rock's biceps. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:56
  • 2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree Cicchino: Cree has seen the other adaptations of John's books; for The Fault in Our Stars she went with friends who brought blankets, knowing they would cry. — 00:01:27
  • 2022-05-31 · A Casting Announcement — John says he has never managed a cameo in an adaptation of his books: in The Fault in Our Stars movie he had two lines, but his acting was so bad the scene was cut. (playful) — 00:00:29

2024

  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John says The Fault in Our Stars movie sold a ton of books. — 00:03:24
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — John says a share of the profit from The Fault in Our Stars movie would have made him a lot of money, as it was one of the most profitable movies of all time. — 00:00:29
    • John is in the film with a line, joking that he has progressed significantly as an actor since being cut out of The Fault in Our Stars film. (playful) — 00:03:14
  • 2024-04-30 · Not Doing That Great — John: Since The Fault in Our Stars movie came out ten years ago, John has learned again and again that he is just not very good at being properly famous. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-05-03 · Everything Wrong with Turtles All the Way Down — Hank says that from The Fault in Our Stars film to this one it has been something to be part of both worlds in a weird way: he has not been part of it himself, but through John he has, and he is grateful. — 00:03:08

2025

  • 2025-08-26 · Not to Criticize Hank… — John got birthday texts with personal reflections and good wishes from comedian Mike Birbiglia, who was in The Fault in Our Stars, and from YouTuber CGP Grey. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says growth then sped up: the two millionth subscriber came in mid-2014 as The Fault in Our Stars movie took off, the three millionth in May 2017. — 00:01:56

2026

  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John's background includes a baseball signed by Harry Caray that he got for his 16th birthday, a Swindon Town 2011 FA Cup champions plate given to him, and his MTV Movie Award for The Fault in Our Stars. — 03:10:35
  • 2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — John says, self-deprecatingly, that his cameo was cut from The Fault in Our Stars because he is such a bad actor. (playful) — 00:00:29