A second, extended trailer for The Fault in Our Stars has recently been released, showing that there’s more to the Young Adult film adaptation craze than post-apocalyptic battlefields pitting children against each other (see: The Hunger Games, Divergent). Of course, the other side to YA are the coming-of-age drama/romance stories that have actually been legitimately good the past couple of years (see: The Spectacular Now, The Perks of Being a Wallflower). The Fault in Our Stars definitely falls into the latter category, and should contend to be a serious tearjerker that further allows America to fall in love with Shailene Woodley.
As Mackenzie so eloquently put it two months ago when the first trailer for the film was released, Woodley stars as Hazel, a teenage girl diagnosed with a form of cancer so severe, she has to constantly breathe with the assistance of an oxygen tank. While at a cancer support group, she meets another cancer patient, Augustus (Divergent‘s Ansel Elgort). As is typical of YA novels, they fall in love in spite of their afflictions. I’m not familiar with John Green’s novel, but I get the feeling The Fault in Our Stars could be a heartbreaker not meant for rainy Monday afternoons.
The Fault in Our Stars will be in theaters on June 22nd.