Tag: I Am Number Four
Timothy Olyphant In I Am Number Four, Sharlto Copley Out
Timothy Olyphant has joined I Am Number Four.
If you have no idea what this movie is about, then you’re definitely the right person for this report. This upcoming D.J. Caruso project is actually the adaptation of James Frey and Jobie Hughes’s teen sci-fi alien book. And what’s also interesting about whole “Four”-thing, is the fact that Sharlto Copley is no longer attached to this project.
We were little surprised, but this is (kind of official) explanation: “he is dropping out of it, due to scheduling conflicts with having to promote The A – Team this summer…”
But let’s get back to the project! I Am Number Four focuses on the fate of nine gifted children and their guardians, the sole survivors of a bitter war on their home planet called Lorien, who have settled on Earth under the protection of a charm that means their enemies can only kill them in numeric order.
Three of the nine are dead; the novel’s narrator is number Four. The nine children and their guardians evacuate to earth and the protagonist, a Lorien boy named John Smith, hides in Paradise, Ohio, as a human and tries to evade his predators.”
Kevin Durand and Callan McAuliffe In I Am Number Four
Are you guys ready for some I Am Number Four updates? Ok, then let’s start with information that Kevin Durand and Callan McAuliffe have joined the cast of the upcoming sci-fi film, directed by D.J. Caruso.
We’re here to remind you that Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) is directing the film from a script by Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and that shooting was said to begin next month in Pittsburgh. Check out the rest of our report for more details….
What we know about this upcoming project is that: “the film is an adaptation of the not-yet-released young-adult sci-fi novel of the same name by James Frey and Jobie Hughes. It follows a group of nine aliens who hide out on Earth after their own planet, Lorien, is destroyed by a rival race of aliens. The nine who escape are all teenagers who are beginning to develop special powers. The titular Number Four disguises himself as a high schooler while he and the rest of the survivors assimilate, but he then discovers they are still being hunted by their enemy race. “
The cast already includes interesting names: Durand will play “The Commander”, the bounty hunter who chases the nine aliens Number Four and Number Six to Earth from their alien planet.
I AM NUMBER FOUR Plot Details
DreamWorks has acquired the screen rights to “I Am Number Four,” the first of a six-book science fiction series. Director Michael Bay (Transformers) is set to produce and possibly direct the novel adaptation.
The franchise is about a group of nine earthbound alien teens who escaped their planet just before it was destroyed by a hostile species. While the high school-aged kids assimilate, the title character discovers that he is being hunted by the enemy that blew up his planet.
