Sarah Polley to adapt novel from The Fault in Our Stars author John Green

The actor and director of Away From Her will write the screenplay for Looking For Alaska, adapted from the first novel by the hugely successful John Green

Sarah Polley, the actor who went on to direct the acclaimed films Away From Her, Take This Waltz and Stories We Tell, is to adapt the debut novel from John Green, whose book The Fault in Our Stars has become a worldwide phenomenon.

Looking For Alaska was published in 2006, and concerns a teenage boy starting out at a boarding school where he meets and is enchanted by the beautiful, reckless Alaska before tragedy strikes. Polley will write the screenplay for the adaptation, with the director still not decided.

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