Sarah Polley to Adapt, Possibly Direct John Green's 'Looking for Alaska'

With The Fault In Our Stars breaking hearts and proving to be very successful financially, author John Green is more in demand than ever. Already plans are underway to adapt his book, Paper Towns, with 'Fault' screenwriters Michael Weber and Scott Neustadter joining co-star Nat Wolff. And now Paramount Pictures is hoping to ride the Green wave, hiring Sarah Polley to bring his debut novel Looking for Alaska to the screen.

Deadline reports Polley, who has done excellent work on Take This Waltz, Away from Her, and Stories We Tell, will write the screenplay with the chance she could direct. And this is a project she really wanted, making a strong pitch to the studio in order to land the gig. Paramount's been sitting on this one for awhile but with Green such a hot commodity they've decided now is the right time.

Here's the books official synopsis:

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .

After. Nothing is ever the same.