Paper Towns movie tour (2015): Europe stops and US states chosen by Tumblr vote
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2015-07-21) · last mentioned: 2022-01-25
In June 2015 John announced a Paper Towns movie tour: a European leg that began in Madrid with Nat Wolff, and US stops chosen by Tumblr vote, which became Indianapolis, Columbus and Dallas in July. By the film's release John had met many thousands of Nerdfighters around the country.
Part of: Paper Towns film: production and release (2014)
Parts: John asks viewers to vote for their state for the Paper Towns US tour at papertownsmovie.com/tour (2015) · John's Paper Towns film promotional tour: New York, Indianapolis, Columbus, Dallas (July 2015) · John's European Paper Towns press trip with Nat Wolff, starting in Madrid (June 2015) · John: announce the venues and times of the US Paper Towns tour stops within a week (2015)
Told alongside: John travels to Brazil for the Paper Towns premiere, away from home for 28 days (2015) · John's exhaustion during the Paper Towns film promotion (July 2015) · John: share a Mountain Goats song he loves every day until the Paper Towns US release (2015)
About: Paper Towns (film), Europe, Berlin, Paris, London, Tumblr, United States, Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-26 | proposed | 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) | Sixteen Parts 00:02:58 |
| 2015-06-08 | announced | John announces the Paper Towns movie tour: Berlin, Paris and London next week (week of 15 June 2015), and a US tour in July with Nat and Cara. | Monday Bonus Video! 00:00:06 |
| 2015-06-08 | rule change | John sets the US tour rules: the stops are the states with the most votes at papertownsmovie.com/tour, one Tumblr note equals one vote, voting until June 15. | Monday Bonus Video! 00:01:18 |
| 2015-06-16 (said on 2015-06-13, implied) | launched | The description says the European leg of the Paper Towns press tour begins in Madrid with John and Nat Wolff. | Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS video description |
| 2015-06-23 | milestone | 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. | Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff 00:00:06 |
| 2015-06-30 | milestone | John announces the US tour stops with Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff and Halston Sage: Indianapolis July 14, Columbus July 15, Dallas July 16; all events free. | Some News 00:01:06 |
| 2015-07-21 | outcome | John met many thousands of Nerdfighters around the country, and many wanted to say hello to Hank, as crowds then do. | PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY 00:00:16 |
| 2015-07-28 | looked back | John says the past two months were long and difficult; he missed his family and is glad to be home, but the tour week was an adventure that brought him closer to people he loves. | Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:03:37 |
| 2022-01-25 | looked back | In 2015 John, Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne travelled to eight countries in two weeks to promote the Paper Towns movie. | My Least Relatable Story: The Parisian Dentist 00:00:00 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
12 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John: The Paris stop of the Paper Towns tour is a meet and greet on June 17 at 6:30 pm at the Librairie de Paris. — video description
- 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John: The Berlin event is fully booked; Fox's German account @FoxDeutschland will announce any further tickets. — video description
- 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John: A special Paper Towns event is coming to London very soon, with details from @UKPaperTowns. — video description
- 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John: The US leg, where viewers' votes decide where Cara, Nat and John go, is called the #GetLostGetFound tour; FAQs are on John's Tumblr. — video description
- 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
- 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John, Nat and Cara will tour the US in July, visiting the states with the most votes at papertownsmovie.com/tour, where one Tumblr like or reblog counts as one vote, until June 15. — 00:01:10
- 2015-06-16 (said on 2015-06-13, implied) · Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS — The description says the European leg of the Paper Towns press tour begins in Madrid, with John and Nat Wolff pushing through crushing jet lag. — video description
- 2015-06-23 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff — Cara Delevingne: Asked whether she would ride a llama, Cara Delevingne says obviously, because she wants to see how hard a llama actually spits; Nat says no. (playful) — 00:01:51
- 2015-06-23 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff — recommendation: Cara Delevingne's advice for getting over a breakup: be distracted and get a new one, since there are plenty of them. (playful) — 00:02:08
- 2015-06-23 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff — John says Nat Wolff is obviously a Ravenclaw, adding that Cara, who actually went to Hogwarts, said it was true. (playful) — 00:03:29
- 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 will be in Indianapolis the next day for the start of the Paper Towns tour with Nat, Cara, Akilah Hughes and Nerdfighters, then Columbus and Dallas; events are free, details in the doobly-doo. — 00:00:45