Shaving his Movember beard somehow resulted in 'Pizza John', 'Johnning' sprung from an idiosyncratic pose in a Hollywood Reporter profile and you can't move online right now without hitting seeing these three words: it's a metaphor. Green's connection with his fans paid off for The Fault in Our Stars's US opening weekend - they mobilised in force, powering it past new Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie films to the top of the box office. His VlogBrothers page has more than 2.1 million subscribers, Facebook 'likes' clock in at 1.7 million and on Twitter has an astonishing 2.6 million followers. Thanks to Green's books and YouTube presence he's gradually built up a social media following of dedicated 'Nerdfighters'. Their most popular video of all time delivered a whopping 16 million views and is titled simply 'Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED'. Through the VlogBrothers channel, John and Hank have run Brotherhood 2.0 (in which they communicated only through vlogs), the Emmy-winning Lizzie Bennet Diaries (a modern serialisation of Pride and Prejudice) and a short-form educational series called Crash Course. Not only is he a best-selling writer, he's a successful vlogger too.Īlongside his brother Hank Green, John has run a series of successful YouTube video projects that turned him into something of a web celebrity. That films writers, Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber, are currently working on a new script. A mystery wrapped around an epic American road trip, a Paper Town movie may yet see the light of day thanks to the success of TFIOS. Green himself was hired to write the script, but the film has yet to get off the ground. Paper Towns, Green's third novel, was optioned for a film by Mandate Pictures and John Malkovich's Mr Mudd firm in 2008. The Fault in Our Stars wasn't his first experience in Hollywood. These experiences, along with his friendship with cancer patient Esther Earl, informed The Fault in Our Stars, Green's sixth and most successful novel to-date. It was there he met children suffering from terminal illnesses and decided to become an author instead. The Fault in Our Stars was inspired by Green's time as a student chaplain.īefore he became a best-selling author, Green had intended to become an Episcopal priest and spent five months as a student chaplain at a children's hospital. Who is this latest literary sensation? We deliver all you need to know about John Green below. In a genre dominated by JK Rowling, Stephenie Meyer and Suzanne Collins, TFIOS scribe John sticks out like a teenager strolling around with an unlit cigarette. Firstly, it doesn't have a fantasy/sc-fi hook like Twilight, The Hunger Games or Divergent, and secondly its author is a man.

The Fault in Our Stars is the latest Young Adult fiction book to find success on the big screen, but there's something distinctly different about this box office smash.

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