‘Looking for Alaska’ Searches for the Great Perhaps in First Teaser Trailer

For years, fans of John Green’s seminal novel “Looking for Alaska” have been dying for the film adaptation. And now, 14 years after publication, Hulu is delivering with the first teaser trailer for their series, which will debut all eight episodes on the service on October 18.

In the teaser, we get introduced to the main characters of the novel (and series), though not by name. First up is the titular Alaska Young, played by Kristine Froseth. “Teenagers think they’re invincible,” she says, as we flash through scenes from the Culver Creek Preparatory High School, a combo school/camp that would seem unreal if Green hadn’t attended a school just like it in real life. “They don’t know how right they are.

Then it’s over to the quick, determined, noticeably short Chip “The Colonel” Martin, played by Denny Love. “Sometimes you lose the battle,” he says, “But mischief always wins the war.”

That’s a nice tease for what brings our main characters together: an ever escalating prank war with the rich students who go home on the weekends, versus our main characters, who live at the school full-time.

“I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around and talks about what they’re going to do,” chimes in Takumi Hikohito, played by Jay Lee. “I’m just going to do it.”

And then there’s the last member of the foursome, our main character, Miles “Pudge” Halter played by Charlie Plummer. “I go to seek a great perhaps,” he says. “That’s why I’m going. To start seeking a great perhaps.”

In case it isn’t clear, that “great perhaps,” at least in Miles’s estimation, is Alaska, who he instantly becomes smitten with. Naturally, things are a lot more complicated than simple “boy meets girl,” and tragedy takes hold of the whole group very quickly.

The series also stars Landry Bender, Sofia Vassilieva, Uriah Shelton, Jordan Connor, Ron Cephas Jones and Timothy Simons. The show was created by Josh Schwartz, and is Executive Produced by Schwartz and his long-time TV partner Stephanie Savage, as well as Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, John Green, and Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner of Temple Hill. Fake Empire executive Lis Rowinski serves as co-executive producer. The first episode (which you can see bits of in the teaser) was directed by Sarah Adina Smith.

Where to stream Looking for Alaska