Looking for Alaska limited series on Hulu (2018)
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2019-11-01) · last mentioned: 2024-02-06
Hulu's eight-episode limited series of John's first novel, Looking for Alaska, was confirmed in 2018, cast that October, filmed in 2019 and released on October 18, 2019 to strong reviews. Years later John called it brilliant but said it did not sell many books.
Parts: John: the Looking for Alaska Hulu series will really happen this time (2018)
Told alongside: Looking for Alaska film adaptation in development (2007) · Let It Snow film adaptation (2011)
About: Looking for Alaska (novel), Looking for Alaska (miniseries), Hulu
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-11 | announced | Hank says John's first book, published two years before John proposed making video blogs on YouTube, kept doing better and, now 13 years old, is becoming an eight-episode Hulu miniseries. | Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things 00:00:01 |
| 2018-08-14 | milestone | John says Looking for Alaska is to be adapted into a Hulu limited series; it's still happening, he has read the great first-episode script, and that's all he knows. | Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes 00:00:29 |
| 2018-10-31 (happened 2018-10-30) | milestone | John says it was announced yesterday that Kristine Froseth and Charlie Plummer have been cast as the leads in the eight-episode Hulu adaptation of Looking for Alaska. | The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:00:02 |
| 2019-01-01 | milestone | That will be hard because the Looking for Alaska Hulu series will probably film this year (2019), as will a movie of Let It Snow, which John wrote with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle. (hedged) | How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions 00:02:37 |
| 2019-03-26 | milestone | John films Question Tuesday on the set where the Looking for Alaska Hulu show is being filmed, and has met the actors and seen the sets. | Optimism and Spider People: Question Tuesday from the Looking for Alaska Set 00:00:00 |
| 2019-06-18 | announced | The Looking for Alaska show comes out on Hulu on October 18: eight episodes, all released at once and bingeable. | Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! 00:03:41 |
| 2019-10-08 | announced | The eight-episode adaptation of John's first novel, Looking for Alaska, comes out on Hulu in eight days. | Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) 00:00:00 |
| 2019-10-15 | announced | John says the Looking for Alaska show comes out on Friday or Saturday and its reviews so far have been really good. | I'm Having a Lot of Feelings 00:00:29 |
| 2019-11-01 | outcome | John says the TV adaptation of Looking for Alaska has just come out and is really wonderful; per Rotten Tomatoes it is the freshest adaptation of his work. | On Looking Up to Your Little Brother 00:01:41 |
| 2024-02-06 | looked back | John says the Looking for Alaska show was brilliant but didn't sell a lot of books. | The Truth of How Books Become Movies 00:03:24 |
What is said about it
3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2018-05-11 · Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things — Hank: A Hulu series is very cool and happens to basically no one, but Hank tells John nothing they have done beats finding joy in making stuff, a great community to make it in, and maybe some faith in humanity. (hedged) — 00:03:31
- 2018-10-31 · The Looking for Alaska Thing — John says a producer friend proposed that Josh and Stephanie, long the book's champions, make it with more time than a film, so it became an eight-episode Hulu limited series. — 00:02:49
- 2019-03-12 · Going Home with Alaska and Miles — announcement: John says the eight-episode Hulu adaptation of his first novel, Looking for Alaska, is supposed to begin shooting soon. (hedged) — 00:00:00