The Looking for Alaska Thing
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- In which John charts the long and winding road of the movie/television adaptation of his first novel, Looking for Alaska.
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Congrats to Charlie Plummer and Kristine Froseth on being cast in the Looking for Alaska series; their auditions really blew me away. I just want to put a note here to restate my gratitude to everyone--including the producers and Josh and Stephanie and everyone at Hulu and Paramount TV--for working together to make this happen. I am so hopeful for the series and so excited about it.
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“What good fortune that the story waited for them”
This is how I feel about me playing Dumbledore in the inevitable much anticipated 2085 remake.
!remindme: 67 years.
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Hahaha 😂
you had me laughing out loud. which hasn't happened in the internet ever since 2011. the good year
J.S. Tama happy to hear it. Internet laughter can be hard to come by so I’m honored.
"Write something that matters to those who find it." I like this.
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Holy shit, that last line got me. Have you ever considered a career in writing? I think you have potential!
Yeah! You know? He definitely should! I also think John should write and host educational videos!
You nerdfighters are a humorous lot .
"Hank, I'll see you tomorrow?" :D
Yeah he should give up his current career of casting movies/Hulu series to be a writer!
Wait I thought he was a writer
I have been waiting so long for “Looking For Alaska” to be made into a movie. The fact that it’s finally happening as a limited series is even better. This video legit made me tear up a bit. So excited for you John because this book meant so much to me when I was 17. It’s still one of my all time favorite books almost 12 years later and is what made me fall in love with you as a writer.
Thanks for sticking with us all this time :) And thanks so much for this lovely comment. -John
I get emotional every time I here the mention if the book. I'm so excited for the series. I think it'll be pretty fantastic. Idk if it'll match my view of the book but I think that will be the beauty of it.
Same for me when I was 17 also !
Yeah for me too, loved it from the first read
I started crying when John said 'what good fortune that the story waited for them' and I'm not sure why.
It's a really nice thought that sometimes, fortune writes beautiful stories
(I saw your comment as I heard him say it and it was a wonderful experience)
Me too. I just instantly teared up, hahaha.
Cuz it's such a great line to describe such a beautiful thing!
Ditto
John, I found Alaska in a time when I needed a candle in the way down darkness. I still look to that book in times when I need it. Thanks for a story that has meant so much to me. Best wishes for the future of the story! ❤️ - Paulina
You found Alaska? We're still looking for her!
I understood LFA only ofter I fell in love myself for the first time. Love can really suck...🌼
Your hair is very triangular/pointy on top and it's making me simultaneously uncomfortable and happy.
Yeah I touched my hair way more during this video than usual? I guess I am nervous? -John
mo hawk puff
Well, this wasn't a "puff levels are high" kind of hair volume, so I guess it's a good thing.
@@vlogbrothers The puff has become the pyramid?? The Jimmy Neutron?
John and Hank have been pushing themselves harder than ever, yet they seem to be aging backwards. And their hair is getting better.
I love Pizzamas because daily Vlogbrothers videos are everything.
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Right!? And the merch is so good!
lol yeh i was so surprised when i saw another video in my subbox
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Looking for Alaska is my favorite book for some reasons that I don’t even know, it really did change my perspective to forgiveness. Thank u John Green ;)
Don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here getting emotional!
+ really happens so suddenly, doesn't it? It happens to me all the time, where I'm like, "oh, great! another video under 4 minutes that I can satisfactorily kill some time with while I eat my lunch" then by minute 3, I'm like "Thank goodness no one is around to see me tear up while eating these nachos!"
I'm not going to start crying... I'm not going to start crying... *remembers finishing Before* G- f-ing d-it! 😭
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im excited but scared for this adaptation
Same! -John
vlogbrothers Looking for Alaska already means a lot to many people. No matter how good or bad it turns out as a tv series it’s exciting to get more of it any way. Happy for you John.
It was brilliant
@@funkdancingforselfdefense5278 it was perfect
One episode to watch to go, and it was brilliant.
0:53 that's exactly what looking for alaska is to me. I really really really love this book. I am so so excited for this tv series.
I was only born two months after this book was published and I did not read it at the time obviously. I read it last year at christmas. I've reread it twice since. And it never fails to amaze me how perfect this book is. I think about the characters at least twice a week if not more. I care about them so deeply. And everytime I see someone reading it I get so happy and excited for them. They are discovering these fantastic characters and a beautifully written story that I love. Books are magic, they really are.
Thanks. That's so kind of you to say. Means a lot to me. -John
Frizzard Georgia I have yet to read it! Just last year I read Paper Towns and The Fault In Our Stars
"What good fortune that the story waited for them"..
How do you words?.. all the time!
Alaska is my fav John Green book 📖 so I cannot wait for this series ❤️
It is also my favourite, but I am hesitant because I love it so much lol
I understand both of you
same i’m a lil scared too lol
I found looking for Alaska back in 2011 after seeing the infamous “if people were rain” quote all over tumblr. Little did I know how much it would forever change my little 13 year old mind. It changed my life and forever will hold a special place in my heart. For my final project in my 12th grade advanced English class I wrote a 12 page essay on why Alaska was the perfect embodiment of a manic pixie dream girl and how that made Miles an unreliable narrator due to his infatuation with her. To this day it’s one of the things I’m most proud of. Your book helped me achieve a 96% on a project I went into thinking I’d fail and changed the course of what I wanted to do with my life and future career. So thank you for sharing your stories, I know your books have all changed my life and Alaska will always be my favourite.
“Write something that matters to those who find it.” The wisest piece of advice for any creation, thank you John! 😊
You’re so lovely and this is so exciting. Your words about books needing to mean something to those who find them just blew my mind. I always knew that was true, but never heard it succinctly articulated. Congrats my dude.
where is that phrase, "candles in the way-down darkness" from? is it just from John's brain? because it's a nice phrase
Commenting because I, too, would like to know.
Same as the other guy
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but why Hulu? Hulu doesn't stream anywhere but America. love, Canada.
oniondust I don’t think he has control over that :/
oniondust vpn?
Love, all of Europe too
Love Always South Africa
Disney is planning on getting Hulu international but for now I guess a channel in Canada is gonna have the rights to air it like the rest of the other Hulu originals.
This makes me so happy because Looking for Alaska is my favorite book that you have written. It was assigned as one of about 10 choices in a YA Lit class I took in grad school, and I'm so glad I picked it. It has stayed with me to this day.
That's lovely to hear. Thanks! -John
I just started reading Looking for Alaska.
I hope you enjoy it. I haven't read it in like 13.5 years, so I don't really remember it? But I hope it's good! -John
It’s really good! I’ll always remember the first time I read it.
Alyssa Buchanan it sounds like the movie adaption, if it happens, is in the best possible hands.
Your comment took me right back to reading it when I was 17 😊 i still remember how I felt reading it and it was 6 years ago x
It's awesome! The first chapter or two might make you feel profoundly lonely though
I feel like I have been on this ride with you (and everyone else in nerdfighteria) for such a long time and I am so excited that it looks like it will have a very happy ending (despite all the times it seemed it would not). The book feels so special and weirdly personal to me having read it again and again as I grew up with differing nuances each time. I am so happy for you and the cast!
I read looking for Alaska about a year ago. Since then, I've read it more than 18 times. My original copy was ripped, and highlighted, and had pizza stains, and was full of love. I lost it. My mom just bought me a new copy last night, and when I tell you I cried, I cried. I myself am pretty scared about the hulu series. This book is pretty much the closest thing that I have to a bible, and I dont want it to get butchered. Let's all hope that this series is the best thing hulu has to offer, because it means quite alot to me. Thank you, John Green, for writing the best book in all of existence, because it really is.
I’m watching the series again and wow. It is such a stellar adaptation. Particularly the writing, soundtrack, editing, and performances.
Denny Love’s Colonel shoots right through me every time he’s on screen.
I think the casting of Alaska is great but it does make me feel VERY OLD 😭
One of the actors who was originally being considered for Alaska recently played a 30-something mother in a movie--and is also a 30-something mother in real life. -John
Funny story John. I am an international teacher. From 2004/2009 I taught in Cairo, Egypt. I was fortunate to take a children’s lit course offered by a colleague. It was amazing. We met every Saturday and discussed books we read the week before. One book I read and LOVED was “Looking for Alaska.” It left such a lasting impression on me through all of the books I read. Fast forward to discovering vlog brothers and crash course and scishow and...It wasn’t until much later I made the connection that you were THAT author. So somehow I feel that much more connected to you and your work. I know it sounds silly but it is like, “I knew you when...” As always your thoughtful and compassionate heart lead you in incredible ways that we get to all share. Thank you! I look forward to the production on Hulu. Peace
OMG I started crying when I saw your post announcing Looking for Alaska cast... And then, this video happens... I'm crying so much again. Thank you
I’m probably reading this book for the 10th time today. I find my path back to Looking for Alaska whenever I feel hopeless. I’ve first read it when I was 13 years old and today I’m 23, trying to find my way after some life-altering events that left me hopeless for a while. I live in Turkey and we’re still trying to heal after the earthquake. so thank you, John. for this is one of my favorite books, ever. for giving me hope in my darkest hour. im writing this in 2023 and a lot had changed since then. but i hope you and Hank will find it as well. ❤
“Thing that we’re only hinted at in the book” Oh man, that’s gonna hurt...
Please please don't let it be bad and another 13 reasons why... Please universe let it be a beautiful series. I am so scared for my Jhon Green favorite bookb
hi I'm from the future, just wanna relay the message that it turned out to be a beautiful series!
Looking for Alaska was one of those books you read when you're 16 or so that really changes the way you look at the world and how you treat the relationships with the people you like, and love, and fall in love with. It's been 8 years since I first read the book and I still think about it often. I'm so excited we finally get to see it come to life! I even think it'll be a better as a series than a movie!
I found Looking for Alaska when I was 13. I am now 22 and have read Looking for Alaska at least 200 times over the years. It will forever be my favourite book and I will continue to talk about it, share it and read it as long as I live.
Thank you, John! I don’t think I can thank you enough.
*waits for a Will Grayson Will Grayson movie*
not_necessarily_uncrazy for real
So many nerdfighters have been waiting so long... so pumped it’s finally happening!
Looking for Alaska is my favorite book. I read it in middle school, and have continued to reread it regularly. I own many well loved copies, most underlined and highlighted and doodled on. I remember in high school getting scolded for reading it out loud to other students and my librarian went “you don’t think I’ve read John Greens novels??” I got everyone I could to read it so I would have someone to talk to about it.
I can’t wait to see the Hulu series on this book, this makes me so incredibly happy.
Looking for Alaska is a book that spoke to me in ways that very few stories have ever spoken to me, at a time in my life when I needed it most. I was 19, a year out of the darkest period of my entire life, and desperately trying to find myself. That book really helped me put everything I had been through, and everything I was going through at that moment, into perspective and begin to actually heal from it all. I can't wait for it to become a series.
Alaska was my first of his books that I read and even though I might cry by inevitable changes producers tend to make in novel adaptations, I'm just ecstatic this is finally happening
You can eat art. The Art Assignment has a whole playlist called Art Cooking, which I think has been made in your kitchen :) And Pizzamas has taught us that pizza is art. Congrats on LFA being created into a new form.
Just checking, do you know who is the host of The Art Assignment?
Haha yes, that's why I said "has been made in your kitchen." I was just poking fun at John since he has had many art meals. DFTBA
I love that you further elaborated on the ability to eat art.
I don't like the art assignment, I can't find where they get their thumbnails
I stumbled upon "Looking for Alaska" in my school library when i was 12 (maybe 13) rummaging through all the books in it, and i was going through a pretty dark time, but the humor and light that shines through Miles's and Alaska's story is something I always look back to every so often. Initially, I picked it for the black cover, no background about it, and i'm so glad i did 5 years later
This is incredible. I found your channel back in 2008 when I was 12 years old. I met you and Hank back in 2012 during The Fault In Our Stars tour. You have had one of the biggest impacts on my adolescent years. I’m so proud of all your successes!
Now that the series is out i can say that it was amazing . From the casting to the script . The series is much more brutal but it really let s you see every aspect . I don t thknk there were 4 people that could play the main characters as they did . It s like Denny and Charlie played themselfs . Kristine is just perfect in every way . Her smile it s to much
I read Looking for Alaska a couple of years ago and it really...it was beautifully brutal. I felt so much nostalgia, although I never did most of the stuff that happened in the book. It was like listening to a song and you haven't experienced what the lyrics express but you feel it and you can empathize and that makes it so powerful. It also made me feel like I had missed out on stuff because when I was in school I didn't do any of the silly stuff. I get it, it's mostly fiction and meant to entertain but still...I had a severe case of FOHMO (Fear of having missed out).
The characters are so well-written and likeable and they reminded me of my friends from school, which only added to the nostalgia aspect because at the time I read it, I had been out of school for a couple of years but it wasn't as distant of a memory as it is now. Life after school was still new to me.
The ending was an absolute sucker punch. [Tangent] I really like writing music that has tension that never quite resolves in the end [/tangent] but I really appreciate when literature has a happy ending and so I was even more flabbergasted by the ending. I get it, it's good the way it is, and I understand why, but it's still so god damn sad.
Looking for Alaska is one of my favourite books of all time. I cannot express to you how much that book meant to me as a teenager and how much it still means to me now. Thank you for writing it, John. It’s changed my life.
i am so grateful for the closed captioning on this video. please make this a regular thing. i understand it is time-consuming but i really appreciate the accessibility.
john- congratulations. i'm glad the story waited. i read looking for alaska in middle school which was the beginning of the hardest years of my life yet it gave me hope and a laugh. now, as a 20 something, i understand the book in a different way. i cannot wait for the series to air.
🎵It’s the most Pizza John tiiiiiime of the year🎵
KRISTINE FROSETH IS WHAT ALASKA HAS ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE IN MY HEAD WHAT SORT OF WIZARDRY IS THIS WOW OMG
I first read "Looking for Alaska" when I was 16. It came to me during one of the most difficult times in my life and helped me cope with a lot of things I was struggling with. My copy's a little beat up, but it's made it through 5 moves and still sits proudly on my shelf. John - you gave me a lifeboat when I thought I was just about to drown, and I'll be forever grateful for that.
I don't watch vlog brothers videos much, but when I do I'm so blown away by the grace with which these two awesome guys communicate their thoughts and feeling to an audience of millions. I really enjoy listening to them tell stories like this one and give perspectives that are so unique and grounded.
Looking for Alaska was one of the most amazing books I have ever read I had to read it another 365 times!!!!!
This video should have been called "Looking for the Looking for Alaska Adaptation"
I am truly happy Looking for Alaska is finally going to be adapted. This book got me through one of the hardest times of my life so far and it's very dear to me. Thank you so much for having written it John. I hope the series lives up to the source material and I wish all of those involved in the production the best of luck! I'm so excited! DFTBA!
Looking for Alaska made me feel things that most books don't make me feel, by far my favorite book of yours, the second being turtles all the way down. The quote, "The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company." Tore me up in so many ways.
can't wait for the series! perfect excuse to reread looking for alaska haha
Every day I watch you guys with closed captioning but now there is no captioning on this? :( Please do upload captions for the deaf community. I'm a big fan of Looking for Alaska so I would love to understand what you were saying.
DFTBA, nerdfighteria.
John, I don’t know if you added the captions or some nerdfighter did, but thank you! You guys are truly awesome! I’m so happy I’m part of this community!
DFTBA
looking for alaska means so much to me. in fact my copy of looking for alaska is very, very loved on. the front and back cover doesn’t even exist anymore, i have highlights and things underlines and notes written. seeing other people appreciate this story in such a big platform like hulu will be bittersweet (i imagine for you as well, john) but i’m excited. it’s been a candle for me. and now it may be a candle to other people as well, and i suppose that’s all that matters. here’s to looking for alaska.
Looking for Alaska had such a huge impact on me. I found out about it on tumblr it was just a quote, a picture of the paragraph when Alaska slept on Pudge and I just connect with those lines. I searched it and found John Green and ever since I was obsessed with his books. The way he writes makes me feel again. It was the book that made me want to read more and feel pain and accept it. I understood the story but I felt it more when I know how Pudge felt. I’ve known loss.
damn looks like i’m paying for a hulu membership
my one criticism is that I think the girl cast as alaska is too, idk beautiful, I feel like shailene was a prefect casting choice for hazel, but cara didn’t fit margo in any way. I felt like she was just a pretty face. I will say kristine did a great job in the sierra burgess movie but the whole time i just felt like i was watching a model act and seeing her cast for alaska, I’m iffy. I always thought alaska was supposed to be unconventionally gorgeous not like a vogue model but idk still looking forward to it. also her hair is brown? hoping they dye it. I won’t even get into pudge lol he’s supposed to have that name because he’s tall and lanky, and the actor cast is 5’10? idk seems off. i’ll try not to nitpick bc he’s gorgeous and i really want to like it lol. it’s my favorite john green book to date, probably going to reread soon lol
hope i agree but instead of shailene i think kaya scodelario would be a perfect Alaska...she did such a good part playing effy in skins so i feel like she would just fit.
@@im.just.bored_1332 OMG YASS!
Looking For Alaska is literally my favorite book that I have read so far. I was at a low point in my life and I was able to relate and find comfort in the story and the characters. I have read the book multiple times and it never gets old. I am really excited for this and I hope they do an amazing job with it! Keep us updated!!!
Only looking back on something that happend long before you can tell it was good fortune or bad luck. I am serious that it was the best that can happened when the shooting's been cancelled. This series really touch me in a way that I haven't been touch in a while. Everything was perfect (well as far as I can tell as I haven't read the book before the show). So perfect that I already hold my Hungarian copy and just about to re-live the whole story days after I've watched the last episode. I will be forever thankful for all who have worked on it. Love you all.
Hi! I have one question: Why the description of the series says that Alaska will die? I think that not knowing that she would die was the thing that made me fall in love with the book. Why do this spoiler exist?
Love from Portugal 🇵🇹 ❤️
Rita Rodrigues I don’t think the description does, at least not the English version. Either way, from what I remember, it’s never said whether she actually dies or not.
The first three big articles that come up when you google 'looking for alaska hulu' mention that spoiler, which is pretty unfortunate :/
(but also, so does this comment lol)
It didn't say in the description (at least not that I remember), but when I was looking at the author bio (idk why I already know who John is), there was a reading questions thing on the opposite side where one of the questions was asking whether Alaska's death was necessary. I saw this before I started reading which really upset me.
(I think OP is talking about descriptions of the story in the press about the upcoming series, not the description in the book ✌)
@@AllieYourAlly True😂, sorry
but John, i don't have Hulu.
Noelle H. Get the free month trial when it comes out! Problem solved.
“What good fortune that the story waited for them” so sweet how much love and trust you have for the actors
Looking for Alaska was not the first book written by you that I read, nor was it my last. It is also probably not my most-read one either, or the one that I quote from regularly (those titles must both go to TFIOS, I imagine). But it is the one that I remember when I think about long winter nights where I could not bring myself to close the lights. It is the one I tear up thinking about: the tragedies and learning moments of the stories, and the week I slept two hours a night and read Looking For Alaska five times before the sun came up. It is a book for me in which there is an extraordinary narrative told by somewhat unextraordinary people and lives, and that brings me comfort, knowing that they will always be there whenever I need them. So thank you, thank you John. I hope you're taking care of yourself alright.
-HAPPY DAY 3 OF PIZZAMAS
-ALSO CONGRATS TO ALL WHO ARE WORKING ON LOOKING FOR ALASKA
-ALSO HAVE A GOOD DAY EVERYONE
I HOPE YOU ALSO HAVE A GOOD DAY
@@samanthaslagel8138 THANK YOU I HAVE
Pizzamas!!!!!
Close friends of mine questioned why I enjoyed Looking for Alaska so much, an ex-boyfriend made fun of me for loving Looking for Alaska the way I do, and I've met other fans of your that are confused that Looking for Alaska it is undoubtedly, without fail, my favourite novel of yours. I was 16 when the book found me, and it taught me and broke me and comforted me, and it mattered to me. I'm 20 now, and when people ask me my favourite books, it is still in my top five, because even though I am so different than I was, I am still so similar, and the book still matters. This world you created is so important, and I am so happy that you get to see it come to life, the way you brought it to life for me and so many other readers.
Looking for Alaska has been my favorite book for years, not even joking. It’s the perfect plot and the way you write the characters to show their personalities makes the audience fall in love with them.
EXCUSE ME SIR, ARE YOU A CASTING DIRECTOR?
You said "Happy day three of Pizzamas" but all I wanted to hear was "Happy Birthday"! So that's what I let myself hear.
Edit: Speaking of nerdfighter's birthdays: Why do you keep making yourself older than you are? You were 27 when Looking for Alaska came out. Your birthday is in August. March comes before August. You were born in 1977. Come on!
Happy birthday!
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Thank you! And I very unbelievably assure you that I did not try to provoke such a respone!
Probably because after a certain number of birthdays, it's very easy to forget which one you're up to
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In fact, a few months ago I was thinking about being 34 and turning 35 soon, pondering it for a couple of moments. Simply "knowing" I would turn 35 in October. Until I realized I was only 33, about to turn 34. I still found it very strange when I think last year I think around September Hank referred to himself as being either 38 or even 39, after turning 37 only a few months earlier and - of course - in the same calender year.
Decided to re-read Looking for Alaska a few days ago. It never ceases to amaze me that simple ink on a page can be the catalyst for so much heartbreak and joy. I’m so excited to see this story told on the screen in this series!
Impossible challenge for John: can you put out just ONE video that doesn't move me deeply?
When will the adaptation of An Abundance Of Katherines be made? ;)
I think _Katherines_ would be better adapted into a RUclips series, where the footnotes are cards/links/whatever that pop up and you can go to another video detailing some basically irrelevant yet fascinating sidenote.
Is that guy who did Lizzie Bennet Diaries available for something like that?
Well all we can do is wait and see
Honey yessss
@@AmandaMariePingelRamsay I would be so down for that.
@@dragonsandwaffles258 RIGHT?? It would actually be so amazing.
my 13 year old self is finally satisfied
looking for alaska has left an immeasurable mark on me for many, many years. i first read it in the 7th grade, and now i am a college freshman. i used to tell people to call me alaska instead of my actual name, because of how much alaska meant to me and how much i saw myself in her. she was the first fictional character that became more that just a fictitious concept, but so much more, as if i personally knew her. i am utterly content to hear this news, john. it is well deserved and i am so proud.
I found Looking For Alaska at a really important time in my life 2008 or so. It has so carried with me that I checked it out from the library three times that year before buying it in two separate formats, a paper back and an ebook in case I need to read it again on a plane. I'm so glad this is happening.
Moustache?
Why isn't anyone else asking this important question???
It's really something we all moustache ourselves.
Tati P Well played.
JOHN WHEN WILL U DO ANOTHER FORTNITE VIDEO??? - a sad English major who is taking two math classes this quarter and needs some happiness
You can do it! Go, Hannah! (love from an engineering student)
He probably is in negotiations with his child labor
As a journalism student struggling through her science lab requirement I feel for you. We got this!
I don’t play fortnite or generally watch others play it, but John Green’s pacifist fortnite series is an absolutely remarkable thing
@@reaganrambles1951 smooth.
I hope they make this adaptation what it needs to be. Looking for Alaska is one of my favorite books and it still matters.
it's made and on Hulu already. It's good
@@sameknit thanks.
I just want to say that it's very encouraging to me that you published Looking for Alaska when you were 28. I currently feel like a washed up 22 year old because I failed to find a full-time job with benefits before graduating college. But I know my life likely isn't close to being over, and I'm sure I still have time to write something that may be of value to someone someday. John, thanks for being you and continuing to inspire people like me daily.
I’m kinda new, don’t you have to keep the moustache all week?
hahaha NO! It's a one video only thing. My wife would *not* like a one-week mustache. (Nor would I. Or my children. Or my coworkers. etc.) -John
@@vlogbrothers Oh, Fair enough! (Did i play it cool? I think i played it cool)
@@vlogbrothers Too bad, your smile at the end of your last video was the best thing
When does this come to UK?
No, Series!!
I have no idea! As you might expect of someone who hasn't owned the relevant rights in over thirteen years, I am SO not in the loop about international distribution. ;) -John
@@vlogbrothers Thanks for the reply! Was hoping you'd have some idea but alas. Hulu is...not my favourite service but if I can get it in the uk via that when it comes out I'll buy it for that.
Actually in tears at “what good fortune that the story waited for them”
Your outlook on this process is inspiring. I can’t wait for this series of my fav John Green book 💕
This makes me ~emosh~ I found out about John/nerdfighteria in 2008 at what in hindsight was probably the perfect age: insecure, quiet, nerdy 15. Alaska was the book that started it all and I've been keeping up with vlogbrothers and various projects for last 10 years. So so excited for this series and the extra screen time it gives the story!
The long and winding road
that leads to your door
will never disappear...
~ John Lennon / Paul McCartney
I’m too broke to stream movies and shows from Hulu as well lol
Rina N, wait till the series is released and get your free month trial and binge yo LFA. There's too many streaming services - gotta work the system. XD
Heidi That’s actually a really good idea! Thanks!!
I first read “Looking for Alaska” many years ago and it was the first of your books to make me cry (it would not be the last). It also taught me a valuable lesson, one I had been fortunate enough to not learn the hard way yet: that sometimes we don’t get closure in life, and we just have to live with that. It’s a lesson that has stuck with me throughout my life.
I’m so glad to hear the news about the adaptation, and I sincerely hope the screenwriters and director can do your book justice. Thank you for the life lessons, John, and DFTBA.
alaska has always been a very special book to me. i read it, as many others did, in 2012 after i discovered the brilliance that is john green. in finding this new author, i fell in love with reading again; i loved reading all of the books that were out at the time and then turtles when it came out years later, and with each new book i found at barnes & noble, i became happier to define myself as a reader and learner. from being so obsessed with john green's books, i found vlogbrothers. i watched all of the videos the summer of 2013, and entered high school as a person who was okay with being a little nerdy and bookish and knew that come friday and tuesday, i would have new videos by my favorite people. then i got movies and more content and a community of nerdfighters. and now i'm a college student who will get an adaptation of a novel that i have held dear to my heart for years. i remember re-reading this book while i was in the hospital being treated for depression, and feeling comforted by its words. thank you so much john green, for everything that you do. (and you too hank. you help.) DFTBA.
This actually happened to me...
So once upon a time I was working at taco bell and I had a co-worker named Alaska. One day the store phone rang and some deep voice, "Hi, I'm looking for Alaska?"
"She's not here right now." I laughed on the inside.
They hung up. A couple days later I find out Alaska hasn't been showing up to work. My boss wasn't worried and I felt no reason to be worried so I stopped thinking about it.
About a year later....
the store phone rings: "Hi, I'm looking for Alaska?
"Um, she isn't here...
They hung up. A couple days later I'm working in the drive-thru, a car pulls up, the passenger is down( the driver up and tinted). I take the money give them there food. Then, as they slowly start to pull away
the driver window comes down and Alaska turns towards me. Her bright eyes looking directly into mine as if knowing, something. I'm not sure what to think...On her face, what in retrospect, I am certain was a smile.
wow this would make a great YA novel.
I don't know why I always imagined Alaska as a latina
Because she has big boobs
I first read the book when entering middle school and it changed my perspective so much! It was the first John green book I fell in love with it and now I’m a sophomore in high school. I’ve reread the book countless times and my first copy of the book is so worn down because of how much I’ve read it. It has underlined and notes and book marks under the parts that I loved the most or thought were important and it’s definitely one of my favorite things I have. Every time I reread it I come out with a new view on life or the book itself. It’s basically how John became one of my favorite authors
Looking for Alaska was my first "grown-up" book. I have been hoping for a movie for years, long before I even found this happy corner of the internet and it's great to see it finally coming true. :)
Unfortunately, Green adaptations continue to feature extremely thin girls as their lead. Why do such intelligent books have to cement the idea that only almost anorexic is attractive? Especially as the boys in these adaptations are allowed to be nice and normal looking? This double standard is shocking.
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I could not be more excited about the casting of Charlie as Miles! I met him years ago briefly at a Buddhist Youth conference at the university I am now currently attending and have been chanting for his success as an actor since. I really didn’t believe it when I saw his face on John’s Instagram. What incredible fortune indeed! I can’t wait to watch the show.
I'm so excited for this series!! I read looking for Alaska for the first time in the summer of 2016. It was recommended to me by my friend in gym class. That was my introduction to you John. I don't think I'd have found your books otherwise. I ended up reading TFIOS first before I read Looking for Alaska. 2016 was not the best time in my life, but the book gave me hope. I loved the characters. I love Alaska. I cannot wait for this series.
I read Looking for Alaska when I was in highschool, it actually published my freshman year. Until watching some of your other videos I had no idea that you were the same person who wrote it. While I don't remember all of the book, it's been over ten years since I read it, I do think about it from time to time. To me it felt like it touched on some more mature and "darker" topics, for lack of a better word. Personally I feel like not enough books touch on the subjects covered in it, that are also directed at teenagers and young college adults. I really appreciated that it did, especially with what some of the people closest to me have gone through and were going through, even back in highschool.
I am very excited to find out that Looking for Alaska will be getting an adaptation that has a good length. I look very forward to it. To end this, thank you John for what you yourself have done with your writing and for what you, Hank, and everyone else that works with you does. It enriches my life in ways I didn't even know until recently and I can't thank you enough.
I read the book the first time in 2014 when I was 16, my best friend killed herself on december 11th 2015, so exactly three years ago today, I have read the hook many times since that day and I always come back to it for comfort around that time of year (idek why it gives me the feeling of comfort as it always hits so close to home and i feel so much while reading) and it was so weird that the video just was in my recommendations, I just wanted to say that I’m really looking forward to the series and I love that the book gets more onscreen minutes than a movie would have offered,
also I’m sorry for my messy writing, my thoughts are all over the place atm
I really wanna thank you so so much for comfort in those times and for your words and the way of aligning those words, your writing style, it really is special to me and I’m so glad I found your book(s), please stay the way you are and i really hope you’re doing well and if it’s okay I send you a virtual hug, all the love -nici
I love your books, john. I have yet to read looking for Alaska, but I have read every other book you've written. all of them leave me with a sense of fulfillment after I read them. thank you for writing these books so that I can re read them when I'm feeling bad, and so that I could have the experience of reading them a first time. they have allowed me to escape the world when I really needed to.
Honestly this whole thing makes me want to cry because Looking for Alaska is my absolute favorite book. I have read and reread it over 60 times now, so knowing it’s being made into a series makes me so happy.