He’s a writer-director that knows how to give his characters space to grow and evolve. It was the case with The Wackness, a coming of age tale set in ‘90s New York, and 50/50, a comedy about dealing with cancer. His latest is based on a young adult novel and it got greenlit by Summit Entertainment – the same outfit responsible for adapting Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga – to see how much mileage it could get from teenage girls that are still hung up on the love between girls and meat popsicles.