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Actress Sarah Polley attends The Film Society of Lincoln Centers Film Comment Best Films of 2013 Luncheon presented by Jaeger-Lecoultre at The Lambs Club on January 7, 2014 in New York City.Neilson Barnard--2014 Getty Images by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Jun 26, 2014 12:45 PM UTC For those aching to see more of John Green’s work on the big screen post-_The Fault In Our Stars_, we have good news: [Paramount](http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sarah-polley-to-adapt-john-greens-looking-for-alaska-1201250786/) has signed actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley to adapt Green’s first novel _Looking for Alaska_ into a movie. The book, which was published in 2005, centers on Miles, a young boy starting at a boarding school where he meets the beautiful and troubled Alaska Young, who captivates him along with most of the other boys at school. Unsurprisingly, considering this is a John Green story, there’s also a good deal of tragedy in _Alaska_. The news that _Looking for Alaska_ — which had been optioned for the big screen shortly after it was published, but had since stalled — is finally going to happen is likely as exciting for fans as it is for Green himself. The author tweeted the news early Thursday morning: He has good reason to be excited. Polley, who has won accolades as an actress, director and screenwriter, is a great choice to adapt _Looking for Alaska_. Her directorial debut was the much-praised 2006 film, _Away From Her_, which she actually adapted from the famous Alice Munro short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” In addition to _Away From Her_, Polley has also directed 2011’s _Take This Waltz_ and 2012’s _Stories We Tell,_ a documentary about her own family history. _Looking For Alaska_ will mark the third Green book to move to the big screen, as _Paper Towns_, his 2008 novel, is also set to be adapted by the same producers and screenwriters who worked on _The Fault in Our Stars_. 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