We All Looked Up Movie Updates: Is The Novel Adaptation Still Happening?

Is a planned movie adaptation of best-selling novel We All Looked Up still happening? Asteroids or meteors have long been good fodder for disaster movies, from Sean Connery’s 1979 vehicle Meteor to Michael Bay’s gleefully destructive Armageddon. Author Tommy Wallach’s debut novel We All Looked Up takes a very different approach to the genre, which focuses on a group of teenagers bonding as it looks like the world will soon end thanks to an impending asteroid strike.

The teens are very much a Breakfast Club-inspired bunch, including an athlete, a brain, a punk, etc. The book is more in line with Lars von Trier’s Melancholia than the likes of Armageddon, however, and it spent over 20 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. Author Wallach also recorded a companion album to go along with his book.

The novel attracted some considerable buzz upon publication, but are there still plans for a We All Looked Up movie adaptation?

We All Looked Up Was Optioned By Paramount In 2014

Deadline exclusively confirmed in 2014 that Paramount Insurge had optioned We All Looked Up, with John Davis (The Predator) attached as a producer. Wallach also spoke of his excitement over the novel being optioned but stressed that there was still some distance to go before a potential movie was greenlit.

No Further Updates On We All Looked Up Have Been Revealed

Ever since the initial confirmation of We All Looked Up being optioned, no further word on the project has been revealed. No directors or cast have been attached and there’s no sign of it heading into production. It’s worth noting that Paramount Insurge – which was created to handle smaller budget projects within the studio like The Devil Inside – was shut down in 2015, meaning plans for We All Looked Up may have been cancelled with its demise.

There Are No Plans For A We All Looked Up Movie

While fans of the novel would love to see a movie version, at present it seems there are no plans for a We All Looked Up movie. Lots of promising books are optioned by studios that don’t end up moving forwards, and sadly that appears to be the case with We All Looked Up. With Paramount seemingly focused on bigger budget projects like Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 for the foreseeable future, if the movie is revived, it will probably be at a different studio.

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It’s pronounced Paw-rick, not Pad-raig. Now that’s out of the way, a brief introduction. Padraig has been writing about film online since 2012, when a friend asked if he’d like to contribute the occasional review or feature to their site.

A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games – he even (arguably) had a little bit of talent for it. He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Rant over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU – where Hawkeye is clearly the best character – to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes often require heat resistant gloves to handle.

He’s super modern too, so his favorite movies include Jaws, Die Hard, The Thing, Ghostbusters and Batman. He can be found as i_Padds on Twitter making bad puns.

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