If you’re a young adult who has ever picked up a book, you have more likely than not heard of John Green. His young adult novels, seemingly specifically designed to make people cry, can be found in every Barnes and Noble bookshelf in America.
Now one of his most popular novels, The Fault in Our Stars, is coming to the big screen June 6th. But the much-anticipated movie seems to be another shallow money-making machine.
As if the sad storyline of terminally ill teenagers in love isn’t enough to make teenagers steal their mother’s purses for ticket money, Hollywood has also decided to recycle the same actors from Divergent.
Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort played brother and sister in the book-turned-movie goldmine that is the Divergent series.
Let’s take a second to realize that the same actors who were cast as brother and sister in a pretty recent film are also cast as lovers in The Fault in Our Stars.
It’s getting ridiculous.
As addicting as John Green books are, it makes one wonder if his books are as shallow as the movie trailers present it to be. Is there more to the story than a couple of cancer patient kids and an incredibly unrealistic plot?
Perhaps the movie will surprise us, and turn out to be more than just another cutesy film to attract preteens. Or perhaps not.