'Paper Towns,' Follow-up to 'The Fault in Our Stars,' Gets an Adventurous First Trailer
The first trailer for Paper Towns, the next big-screen adaptation of a John Green novel, has hit the internet. You can watch it above, and don’t worry about keeping a tissue nearby: Unlike last year’s The Fault in Our Stars — the mega-hit adaptation of Green’s best-selling YA novel — Paper Towns probably won’t make you cry.
In the film, Fault alum Nat Wolff plays Quentin, a high school senior who’s living a pretty unremarkable life in Orlando, Florida — that is, until Margot Roth Spiegelman, his gorgeous, genius, adventurous dream-girl neighbor (played by model and Instagram sensation Cara Delevingne) finally starts paying him some attention.
During a late-night hang-out, the two engage in some vengeful teenaged troublemaking, at one point wrapping Margot’s ex-boyfriend’s car in plastic-wrap. But the next morning, Quentin awakes to find that Margot has vanished, sending him on a clue-filled treasure hunt that ultimately leads him to Algoe, New York, the kind of fictional hamlet from which the book and film take their name (”paper towns,” Margot explains, have “paper houses and paper people,” where “everything’s uglier up close”).
20th Century Fox kicked Towns into gear last summer, just as The Fault in Our Stars was on its way to becoming a worldwide phenomenon (the movie grossed $306 million worldwide). The studio even brought back Fault screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber to write the script.
The film is directed by Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank), and co-stars Halston Sage (Neighbors), Austin Abrams (Gangster Squad) and newcomer Justice Smith. Paper Towns hits theaters on July 24.
