8. The Film Cares About The Fans
Any book-film adaptation has to win over the fans of the original source work. The world of cinema is littered with failed franchises that thudded to Earth because they completely failed to appeal to the people who made the film a possibility. This was not something that the team behind
The Fault In Our Stars were prepared to allow. John Green, through his VlogBrothers channel, has cultivated an enormous following for both himself and for his books. The huge response to preview screenings of the film from fans suggests that this following is transferring over to the film and enjoying it. A brief persual of the preview hashtag #FeelItFirst on Twitter shows that the reaction to
The Fault In Our Stars from fans has been overwhelmingly positive. With this approval, the film has leapt over a considerable hurdle for any young adult movie. It is free from the restrictions of having to develop a franchise and, as such, it does not need to worry about setting up story strands for subsequent installments. It simply adapts the story as it is and pleases fans of the story.