Summary

The
Turtles All the Way Down
trailer captures Aza’s anxiety struggles and budding romance well.
The adaptation seemingly maintains the frenetic energy and humanity of the original novel by John Green.
The film is the latest adaptation of one of Green’s novels, coming after
The Fault in Our Stars
,
Paper Towns
, and
Looking for Alaska.

The trailer for Turtles All the Way Down shows a look at the upcoming film about a teenage girl struggling with anxiety. Turtles All the Way Down is a bestselling John Green novel published in 2017, which tells the story of a 16-year-old named Aza Holmes who is struggling with OCD and anxiety. The adaptation stars Madame Web’s Isabela Merced, Succession’s J. Smith-Cameron and Judy Reyes, Hannah Marks, and Never Have I Ever’s Poorna Jagannathan.

Now, Max has released the trailer for Turtles All the Way Down. Check it out below:

From the very beginning of the trailer, Aza is established as someone who is apt to spiral out, as she is first introduced in a mental spiral relating to how the human body is composed of “a massive collection of parasitic organisms ready to cause infection.” Throughout the Turtles All the Way Down trailer, Aza works on navigating challenges with school and her brain, and a budding romance with an old friend named Davis.

How Will Turtles All the Way Down Compare To Other John Green Adaptations?

The Turtles All the Way Down trailer does a remarkable job capturing the frenetic energy that made the book great. Immersing the reader in the mind of Aza, Green’s Turtles All the Way Down is unrelenting in its portrait of anxiety and yet utterly human. From the trailer, it seems that aspect of the book has translated well to the screen. The relationship between Aza and her best friend Daisy is endearing, as Daisy helps Aza along through a tough period.

Turtles All the Way Down comes after a long line of Green adaptations. The first of these came in 2014 with the adaptation of Green’s beloved novel The Fault in Our Stars. That was a critical and commercial success, holding an 81% on Rotten Tomatoes and bringing in $307.1 million at the box office against an estimated $12 million budget. Green later saw his novels Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska get a movie and TV adaptation, respectively.

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Neither the screen version of Paper Towns nor Looking for Alaska has been able to make the same kind of splash that The Fault in Our Stars managed to back in 2014. This fact leaves Turtles All the Way Down in an interesting spot, as it can either match The Fault in Our Stars’ greatness or sink down to the more mixed reception of the other two adaptations. The film has the advantage of adapting what is arguably Green’s best and most sincere novel to date, and with a promising trailer, there is hope for Turtles All the Way Down.

Turtles All the Way Down
is set for release on Max on May 2.

Source: Max

Turtles All The Way Down Director Hannah Marks Release Date May 2, 2024 Studio(s) Warner Bros. Pictures , New Line Cinema , Temple Hill Entertainment Distributor(s) Max Cast Isabela Merced , Cree Cicchino , Felix Mallard , Judy Reyes