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Amandla Stenberg Lands a Fault in Our Stars-esque Movie Role

She'll star in an adaptation of the bestseller Everything, Everything.
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Amandla Stenberg attends a Chanel Fine Jewelry event at the New York Public Library on June 2.By Jared Siskin/ PMC

If you liked The Fault in Our Stars, you might be interested in Amandla Stenberg’s next project. The young actress and activist has been cast in Everything, Everything, The Hollywood Reporter says, an adaptation of the eponymous 2015 Y.A. best-seller by Nicola Yoon. She’ll star alongside angelic Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), who’s something like Ansel Elgort Lite.

The story is about Maddy, a young girl with severe allergies so bad that she hasn't stepped foot in the outside world for 17 years. Of course, a cute boy named Olly moves in next door, thwarting Maddy's plans of self-preservation as she starts to fall in love.

Newcomer Stella Meghie will direct. The script will be penned by J. Mills Goodloe (The Age of Adeline). And Yoon approves of everyone involved very, very much.

Everything, Everything will pick up where films like Me, Earl and the Dying Girl and Me Before You left off, tapping into that specific genre of doomed young love. The Fault in Our Stars, the adaptation of the John Green novel that starred Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, picked up that dormant torch in 2014 and carried it all the way to box-office domination, nabbing over $300 million worldwide. The story revolved around two teenage cancer patients who fall in love, and its success inspired less successful copycats like the Chloë Grace Moretz vehicle If I Stay, based on the 2009 Y.A. novel of the same name.

The casting also marks another high-profile role for Stenberg, best known for her work in The Hunger Games and Sleepy Hollow. Earlier this year, she was cast in The Hate U Give. That timely project, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, is based on the upcoming novel of the same name about a 16-year-old girl who witnesses police brutality. It's fitting for Stenberg, who recently earned a new slate of followers by becoming a vocal activist, speaking out against cultural appropriation and sharing her experience as a black, bisexual teen. Getting these flashy starring roles under her belt is the perfect test for her growing profile.