MTV wanted to launch a TV show based on the book and Fox wanted to buy the movie rights with Chbosky writing the screenplay, but he said, “a little voice told me to hold off, get more experience and learn how to do this. “After a bad breakup and a worse rebound, on a Saturday morning, heartbreak fueled the art,” he said.Īt the time, he “certainly hoped to” direct the film adaption one day - the book even has specific images in it “planting seeds” for the big screen. Chbosky mulled on that line for a number of years before completing the novel, which would go on to become a New York Times bestseller. “I wrote 70 pages just to get to ‘I guess that’s one of the perks of being a wallflower,’” he said. But all hope was not lost: He landed an agent, who got him a job as a screenwriter.Įventually, he revisited a script he’d began writing in college. Though the movie did get accepted into Sundance, Chbosky wasn’t fortunate enough to get a big deal from the festival, and “financial ruin” commenced. Fast forward a decade or so and after deciding he was probably too short for Plan A, he graduated from USC’s screenwriting program and soon after wrote, directed and starred in his first film, “The Four Corners of Nowhere.” When Chbosky was 12, he wanted to be two things, a baseball player and a writer.
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