Incidentally, Bowen and Godfrey are also behind The Maze Runner which opens this weekend - another YA novel adapted for the big screen, albeit not as well as Fault. Erin Siminoff, the day-to-day production person, kept a watchful eye on the budget of the film, which delivered thanks to director Josh Boone and the online chemistry between the two stars, Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. It was a risk: A love story between two kids with cancer, but it was a well-written script - adapted by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber. The exec said yes with a caveat: Keep a handle on the budget. This was a project that was pushed and pushed by producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey who nudged Fox executive Elizabeth Gabler into making the film. How did it happen? It didn’t hurt that the film was based on a bestselling book by John Green, but even still, that was far from a lock to getting it onto the big screen. This picture slogged through the monsters, the superheroes and the animated dragons of the summer to become one of the most profitable pictures in recent memory. If ever there was a perfect storm in releasing a film, this was it. Plus, she has a mouth on her.The modestly-budgeted The Fault In Our Stars (Fox has said it was $12M others said it was $16 but more like $14M after the tax incentive) will gross over $300M worldwide by week’s end for Fox.
Woodley plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old whose thyroid cancer forces her to wear tubes in her nose and drag around an oxygen tank. It’s a fresh, lively love story, brimming with humor and heartbreak, and lifted to the heights by Shailene Woodley, 22, a sublime actress with a résumé, from The Descendants to Divergent, that pretty much proves she’s incapable of making a false move on camera. Weber, of (500) Days of Summer, follows suit. And the film, directed by Josh Boone from a wittily nuanced script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H.
Green made the wise choice to be funny in telling his sad story. It turns out The Fault in Our Stars isn’t total crap on the page or on the screen. Prejudging is easy when it comes to The Fault in Our Stars, the movie version of John Green’s 2012 young-adult bestseller about a present-day Romeo and Juliet, both starcrossed by the Big C. A crappy cancer movie from a crappy cancer book.
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