Eschewing the faith-film-sounding miracle speak of the first trailer, this new spot for Paper Towns is all about the mystery. That part that again makes me think this YA novel adaptation is sort of Gone Girl for teens. The fact that the plot is completely different from Gone Girl is the point. For kids, a wild girl goes missing and it’s time for a road trip to find her. For the romance and adventure. For married adults, a woman goes missing and it’s all about whether or not her husband is guilty of killing her.
Paper Towns is, of course, the next movie based on a book by John Green (“The Fault in Our Stars”) and promotes the previous adaptation’s Nat Wolff to lead. Cara Delevingne is the object of his affection, a girl next door who is out of his league except that she’s also too interesting to be a shallow popular person who wouldn’t think of dragging a geek out of his bedroom in the middle of the night to employ him for an act of revenge. I’m sure they end up together at the end, even though in real life (in my experience anyway) she just ends up back with her cheating boyfriend.
This second trailer gives us more of Wolff’s friends, played by Justice Smith and Austin Abrams, which gives it more of a fun coming of age vibe than just high school romance, next-generation Nicholas Sparks movie kinda feel. It’s possibly more like The Kings of Summer — which Abrams is in — than the previous trailer made it seem. Or even more Superbad, given the way it starts off with a trio of boys discussing how they need to finally go to a big high school party and how Abrams’s character keeps talking about how he wants to bang Wolff’s character’s mom. Yeah, it’s a more natural Superbad. With a road trip.
See for yourself when this opens on July 24th.
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