Merrick here...

Last week we learned that DreamWorks was closing in on the rights to I AM NUMBER FOUR - a book-to-film project that Michael Bay would produce and possibly direct. That project was described thusly by THIS article in Variety:

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.

The article goes on to extrapolate that one of the books' authors may be James Frey - who wrote A MILLION LITTLE PIECES (HERE) - the author's highly controversial (and dubiously "true") account of his wrenching misadventures with drugs.


Now, FilmDrunk has uncovered more deatails on the project:

The protagonist is 15. The rival race of aliens are from the planet Mogadore. They destroyed Lorien in order to strip the planet of its natural resources because Mogadore was dying, and still is, and they followed the Loric to Earth to finish the job. The Loric develop their “Legacies” (special powers) around their fifteenth year. This first book is a kind of love story. At its core it’s a type of father/son alone in the world, always moving to stay alive story, a lá The Road.

...conveys THIS piece over at FilmDrunk.

And the CW Meter goes into complete overload...