It’s not often you get an author like Stephen Chbosky write a critically acclaimed book then have the opportunity to write the script for his film adaptation and then direct the movie as well. So this has a good chance of being a great movie version of the book.

It also features the debut of Emma Watson’s American accent. So there’s something. Overall, it kind of looks like a teen movie that would debut it’s trailer at the MTV Movie Awards while being super angsty. Wait… that’s exactly what happened. [via Vulture]

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