![]() ![]() He’s virtually friendless until he meets Patrick (Ezra Miller), an extroverted senior secretly bedding the school quarterback, and Sam (Emma Watson), a gorgeous free spirit with scars of her own. Set in the early 1990s, Perks centers around a troubled teen named Charlie (Logan Lerman), whose considerable emotional baggage has greatly impacted his high school survival. It took more than a decade for the wheels to truly start turning on a movie adaptation, and Chbosky emerged as the natural choice to pilot the project. ![]() A film version seemed inevitable, but Chbosky wasn’t ready to hand over his polarizing baby. Within seven years, it sold nearly 800,000 copies, while also getting regularly challenged by the American Library Association for its exploration of drug use, homosexuality, and adolescent suicide. In 1999, he made his own contribution to the canon, releasing The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a young-adult novel whose tough themes helped make it a formidable word-of-mouth success, becoming the best-selling title from MTV Books by 2000. ![]() ![]() Stephen Chbosky has been influenced by a lot of angsty classics, like The Graduate and Catcher in the Rye. In Directing, Directors, Filmmaking, Interviews, ScreenwritersĪdaptation, Emma Watson, ezra miller, Logan Lerman, Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, young adult ![]()
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