After a new series has been dubbed as Gossip Girl meets The Fault In Our Stars, we don’t need much more convincing. Looking For Alaska on Hulu is an eight-episode series adapted from the popular John Green teen novel of the same name. The story follows Miles, or “Pudge”, as he’s nicknamed, played by Charlie Plummer and Alaska, played by Kristine Froseth.
The book, and now series, is part love story, part tragedy and part high school drama – all of which creates the perfect pretence for a gripping series.
The network took to Instagram to share a first look at Pudge and Alaska.
The show is slated to premiere on Hulu in October, but we don’t have confirmation of where or when we can watch it in Australia as yet. The series is set to be produced by Josh Schwartz, who created both Gossip Girl and The O.C.
“The truth is, I am excited and I think it will be really good,” John Green said via a Reddit thread. “Josh and Stephanie really know television, and I love their Hulu series Runaways, and from reading the pilot and seeing the series map they’ve laid out, I feel like they’re going to tell the story while also letting you see more of life at Culver Creek, and more of Alaska from her own perspective instead of just Pudge’s deeply flawed one.”
He added, “It has been a very long thirteen years trying to figure out how/whether to adapt Alaska, but Josh cared about the book before almost anyone else had even read it, and he and Stephanie have worked so hard to get to this moment, and I am really excited.”
Watch the trailer below:
