Josh Boone
Birthdate: Apr 5, 1979
Birthplace: Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Josh Boone is a director, writer and producer who has swung between disparate genres (romantic drama to supernatural horror) and adapted best-selling authors (John Green to Stephen King), and who began his feature filmmaking career as director/writer of the romcom, Stuck in Love (2012), starring Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Nat Wolff and Kristen Bell, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival before a limited release by Millennium Entertainment.
Boone made his film industry breakthrough as director only of the hit John Green adaptation written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Fault in Our Stars (2014), starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolff and Willem Dafoe, backed by Fox 2000 Pictures/Temple Hill Entertainment and released to a knockout $307 million gross by 20th Century Fox.
Boone was a co-writer/executive producer of star/director/producer Katie Holmes’ screen adaptation of Annie Weaterwax’s 2014 novel, All We Had (2016), with Richard Kind, Judy Greer and Luke Wilson and released by Gravitas Ventures after a Tribeca Film Festival premiere, and then Boone was the screenwriter on another star/director project, the James Franco-helmed drama, The Pretenders (2018), co-starring Jack Kilmer, Jane Levy, Shameik Moore, Juno Temple, Brian Cox and Dennis Quaid, and released to poor results by Cleopatra Entertainment following a world premiere at the Torino Film Festival. Boone was director/co-writer (with Knate Lee as credited co-writer) of Marvel Entertainment’s final X-Men installment, The New Mutants (2020), co-starring Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, and Adam Beach, grossing only $49 million for 20th Century Studios.
Josh Boone combined his taste for romantic tales with science fiction as story writer/producer of Press Play (2022), directed and co-written by Greg Bjorkman (with James Bachelor), co-starring Clara Rugaard and Lewis Pullman, and released to little business by distributor The Avenue. Boone returned as director/writer of a romantic drama project based on a best-seller, the big-screen version of Colleen Hoover’s 2019 novel, Regretting You (2025), with Allison Williams, McKenna Grace, Dave Franco, Mason Thames, Willa Fitzgerald, and Scott Eastwood, backed by German and American money (including Constantin Film) and released wide by Paramount Pictures.
Personal life
Josh Boone was born and raised by his parents in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Josh Boone Movies
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- 2025 |
Regretting You
A mother and daughter must grapple with what's left after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover themselves.
- 2020 |
The New Mutants
Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.
- 2014 |
The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel and Gus are teenagers who meet at a cancer support group and fall in love. They both share the same acerbic wit and a love of books, especially "An Imperial Affliction", so they embark on a journey to visit an author in Amsterdam.
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Facts About Josh Boone
Collaborators: Josh Boone frequently collaborates with composer Nathaniel Walcott, whose has scored all of Boone’s movies as director/writer (Stuck in Love, The Fault in Our Stars, Regretting You), and has worked with both brother James and Dave Franco on different projects.
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