John writes the Paper Towns screenplay (2008)
story · status: told 3×, last update 2015 · last event: retold (2015-04-28)
Told alongside: John: break the Question Tuesday record by answering 100 questions in four minutes (2009) · Paper Towns movie option by Mandate and Mr. Mudd (2008) · John: write 50,000 words of a story for NaNoWriMo (November 2009) · Paper Towns: writing, revision and publication (2007)
About: Paper Towns, Juno, Paper Towns (film), National Novel Writing Month, Mandate Pictures
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-10-30 (said on 2008-10-29, implied) | told | Hank says John may be writing the Paper Towns screenplay for the people who made Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. (hedged) | Hank is Late (dr horrible) 00:01:52 |
| 2009-01-27 | update | John says he has to go back to writing the Paper Towns screenplay. | Before Looking for Alaska… 00:02:56 |
| 2009-02-10 | update | John says he is currently writing the Paper Towns screenplay, so whether it becomes a movie is up to him. | Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday 00:00:46 |
| 2009-03-10 | update | John has to turn in the first draft of his Paper Towns screenplay in three days. | How to Get Girls to Like You 00:00:02 |
| 2009-03-18 | update | Hank has heard John's screenplay is finished and going over well with his Hollywood overlord. (hedged) | Lighting Candles for Rwanda 00:02:14 |
| 2009-03-24 | update | John says this week (week of 23 March 2009) he has to turn around a revision on 'this movie' (alongside one on the book he is writing). | Peeps! Prom! Puppy! 00:00:24 |
| 2009-04-21 | update | John says the people who made Juno optioned Paper Towns with him writing the screenplay, and he is working on it now. | Question Tuesday 00:02:04 |
| 2009-09-08 | update | John says he wrote the first draft of the Paper Towns screenplay and is starting the first big revision, alongside his new book. | My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) 00:02:08 |
| 2009-09-22 | update | John says he is writing a screenplay for the people who made Juno, and at the end goes to work on the Paper Towns screenplay. | Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide 00:00:47 |
| 2009-11-17 | update | John says he has had to work on the Paper Towns screenplay revision, which has put him 10,000 words behind on NaNoWriMo. (playful) | Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition 00:00:00 |
| 2013-10-22 | retold | John recalls that in adapting Paper Towns into a screenplay he had the main character pursue an entirely different girl than in the book. (playful) | Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition 00:01:56 |
| 2015-04-28 | retold | John recalls the Paper Towns screenplay he wrote many years ago: vastly different from the book, theme-first, and horrible. | Is the Paper Towns Movie Like the Book? Thoughts on Adaptations 00:01:54 |
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What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2009-03-18 · 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
- 2009-11-17 · 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
- 2013-10-22 · Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition — John: Adapting his own Paper Towns into a screenplay, John had the main character pursue an entirely different girl than in the book, so he may not be the best judge of faithfulness. (playful) — 00:01:56