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Scott Neustadter, working with longtime writing partner Michael H. Weber, turned two of his own real relationships into the screenplay for 500 Days of Summer, the film that made his name. The pair went on to adapt The Spectacular Now, The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns for the screen, and earned an Academy Award nomination for adapting The Disaster Artist; they also created the television comedy Friends with Benefits.