Brit Cara Delevingne has joined Paper Towns, the film adapted from John Green’s YA novel of the same name. If the film enjoys anything like the same success of Green’s other adapted film, The Fault In Our Stars, the model-turned-actress is in for quite a bit of attention.
The news of this latest casting comes on the same day as The Fault In Our Stars is released on DVD and Blu-Ray today.
The Wrap reports that Delevingne will play Margo Roth Spiegelman, the mysterious teen at the center of the novel. Nat Wolff, who was the supporting character Isaac in TFIOS will play Quentin, the male lead.
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who co-wrote both TFIOS and the acclaimed The Spectacular Now, return to pen Paper Towns.
The plot of the book revolves around Delevingne’s character, a mysterious and complex girl who has known Wolff’s character since they were children, though they’ve grown apart. After a spontaneous nighttime adventure during which the two get revenge on people Margo feels have wronged her, Margo disappears. However there are clues that only Quentin — usually referred to as Q — seems to be able to decipher, based on Margo’s secret literary and musical interests.
Green tweeted his excitement for the casting, saying Delevingne “understands Margo profoundly.”
VERY EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT! @Caradelevingne will play Margo Roth Spiegelman in the Paper Towns movie. http://t.co/pa8GhnaJCA
— John Green (@realjohngreen) September 16, 2014
Cara Delevigne’s audition blew everyone away (including me!) and she understands Margo profoundly. I am so excited! — John Green (@realjohngreen) September 16, 2014
