Hi everybody,
So…I’ve got my tickets to see The Fault in Our Stars today. Do you guys have yours?
If, by some chance, you’ve been living under a rock for two years. This is the movie adaptation of John Green’s runaway tearjerker…I mean bestseller.
Probably the question I get asked the most is WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE YOUR BOOKS INTO MOVIES.
Boy, do I hate this question.
Not because I don’t WANT my books to be movies–in fact, the very OPPOSITE is true. It’s just that this question always reminds me how utterly helpless an author is in this process.
I’ve had all of my books optioned for film. Many times. (Some times that were never even made public, so you guys didn’t even know about it.)
It’s not that:
1. I don’t want it.
2. We aren’t working to make it happen.
3. We are actively trying to thwart anyone’s dream of being cast as Cammie and then falling in love with the boy cast to play Zach and then living happily ever after.
I know you guys. I know how your minds work. And I know you want this.
What I don’t think anyone knows is that I want it even more.
And yet I truly, completely cannot make it happen. It isn’t something that is in my control and it never, ever will be.
I don’t have $50 million to fund it. I don’t run a studio. I don’t have a college bff who is now running her own self-funded production company.
All I can do is option things to the best possible people (People like Elizabeth Banks and Lionsgate who have HEIST SOCIETY and Tonik Films who has Gallagher Girls.) And hope for the best.
Oh, and I can go see YA movies. Because the best possible thing that any of us can do is to support 1. the books by buying and reading them and then actively telling our friends to read them and 2. supporting the other YA adaptations already in theaters. Because, let me tell you, there are a lot of people in Hollywood who WANT movies like Divergent and TFiOS and MAZE RUNNER to fail. They don’t want YA movies taking up development dollars and slots in theaters. They don’t want the competition and they will look for any reason to say “No more of these stupid teen movies.”
They will say it. They say it all the time.
So how do we shut them up? By buying a ticket if you can afford to. By being active on social media and renting the movie as soon as it’s out if we can’t.
Now I’ve got to go apply waterproof eye makeup and go see the movie.
-Ally
Kenya says
June 6, 2014 at 3:30 pm“We are actively trying to thwart anyone’s dream of being cast as Cammie and then falling in love with the boy cast to play Zach and then living happily ever after”
This killed me, I cannot stop laughing because everyone knows it’s so true
allycarterlover12 says
June 8, 2014 at 5:36 pmI don’t think that any one can play Cammie and Zach the way they are in the books.
Soph13 says
June 6, 2014 at 4:39 pmSO TRUE! everyone will fall in love with the character playing Zach, and be envying Cammie 😉
hope you like the movie! i’m not going to see it right now, but i’ve heard its going to be good!
Livi says
June 6, 2014 at 5:58 pmNearly everyone I know is going on about ‘The Fault in Our Stars’. I really want to read it but I’ve just got too many books that I haven’t read and I know I’ll leave them forever if I don’t read them now. I think I should read the book before seeing the movie though.
Kaitlin says
June 9, 2014 at 8:25 pmRead the book its absolutely amazing!! But have tissues near you!!
kaitlin says
June 9, 2014 at 8:27 pmYou should read the book its absolutely amazing!!! Also, have tissues by you!!
Kat says
June 6, 2014 at 6:00 pmI would love to support YA novels getting turned into books, however, The Fault in Our Stars is not a novel I could bring myself to read, nor is it a film I want to watch. It’s gotten really good reviews and I’m not saying I think it’ll be horrible, rather I can’t read/watch it because it’s so sad and I hate sad things. It’s the reason I will never watch the Divergent movie or reread the novels.
Jackie says
June 7, 2014 at 11:49 pmI’m with you, Kat. I’m not big on sad stories and the fact that I can just tell how it will end and how much I am going to hate the ending I can’t read it or watch the film. It is probably a very well written novel, the movie is probably a very good adaptation, just not my thing. Hence why i have never seen The Notebook, Titanic, I fell asleep watching A Walk to Remember, and so many other heartwarming, tearjerking, inspirational, movies. I need to read Divergent, but I have a feeling I am going to hate the ending just like how I hated the ending of the Hunger Games. *Sigh* It’s a struggle lol
Isabel says
June 6, 2014 at 8:10 pmI just saw the movie and loved it SO much!
Aumi says
June 6, 2014 at 8:12 pmI hope it will turn into a movie soon!! 🙂 I love your books!
Water Lily says
June 7, 2014 at 2:26 pmI saw TFiOS last night, and it was absolutely amazing!!!!! I’d love to see all of my favorite YA novels become movies, but I’d be so upset if Hollywood ruined Heist Society or the Gallagher Girls. It’s better to have no movie than to have a horrible one that’s just painful for its fans to watch.
Olivia says
June 7, 2014 at 5:32 pmI think there are people who want the movie as much as us fangirls and will be up for putting money toward it. If not all, some and then we can look for other sponsors. Even cars have sponsors, so why not a movie? I saw a book a few days ago in a bookstore and showed my friend the description in the back, “and the incredibly cute detective that she falls in love with” that was the seller for me, but not for my friend. “That makes no difference. I can’t even see them.” I argued back with the undeniable: “You can’t see Zach either! Or Hale!” She was lost for words and bought the book.
Sabina G. says
June 9, 2014 at 8:06 amI really hope your books become into a movie! That would be so cool! I can’t wait to go and see the Maze Runner this September! I hope you enjoyed the movie!!
LukeBrooksFan says
June 9, 2014 at 11:27 amEkkkkkkkkkkkkk I saw the Fault in Our Stars movie the day before it came out(The night before our stars)and i loved it. It was awesome!!!! You won’t be disappointed!:)
kaitlin says
June 9, 2014 at 8:30 pmI really need to see TFIOS, but I think I’m going to have to wait. I really want to see it for the first time with my cousin! Your books would be amazing as movies! Someday it will be on the big screen! Then I will fall in love with Zach!!!!
Hannah says
June 14, 2014 at 12:41 pmOh how I wish the Gallagher Girls would be a movie! These books are literally my life. I read all of them in two days. I would seriously start raising money and finding sponsors for this. I know a lot of people would want to watch it. I would try out for Cammie. 🙂 If these books became a movie I would probably start hyperventilating and sprint to the movie theater – oh how I would be fangirling!
Sky says
June 19, 2014 at 7:33 pmI wish the Gallagher Girls and Heist Society would become movies! I am re reading the Gallagher Girls right now. I love them so much! I know everyone who read the books would want them to become movies. BTW I loved TFiOS! I saw the Night Before our Stars! It was so good!
Lisette says
June 27, 2014 at 11:08 amI cried soooooo hard during TFIOS! I went through an entire tissue box(literally). Me and my best friend were fangirling the entire time and whispering all of the quotes just before they were said – BEST MOVIE EVER! until Gallagher Girls and Heist Society come out because then they will become the best movies ever!!!!!!
Liz says
December 14, 2018 at 7:41 pmI am really upset because I need a Gallagher Girls movie Now or I might die!!!!(don’t worry not literally) but seriously I might actually kill someone!!