Looking for Alaska Genre Teen drama Tragedy Created by Josh Schwartz Based on Looking for Alaska by John Green Starring Charlie Plummer Kristine Froseth Denny Love Jay Lee Sofia Vassilieva Landry Bender Uriah Shelton Jordan Connor Timothy Simons Ron Cephas Jones Music by Siddhartha Khosla Country of origin United States Original language English No. of episodes 8 (list of episodes) Production Executive producers Josh Schwartz Stephanie Savage Marty Bowen Wyck Godfrey Isaac Klausner John Green Jessica Tuchinsky Mark Waters Sarah Adina Smith Producers Samson Mücke Mark Rowen Kirk A. Moore Cinematography Ramsey Nickell Editors Matt Ramsey Shoshanah Tanzer Todd Gerlinger Hillary P. Wills Running time 48–57 minutes Production companies Temple Hill Productions Fake Empire Productions Paramount Television Distributor ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks Budget $57.1 million[1] Release Original network Hulu Original release October 18, 2019 (2019-10-18)