Image Credit: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty ImagesSouth African actor Sharlto Copley, who played a human mutating into an alien in last summer’s District 9, could be an alien disguised in a human body in I Am Number Four, an upcoming Michael Bay production from Dreamworks. According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision blog, Copley is in talks to play the adult guardian of a group of aliens who escape their doomed planet and hide out on Earth, pretending to be human teenagers.
Sound a bit like Superman’s mythology? Well, Al Gough and Miles Millar, the duo that created TV’s Smallville, wrote the script, based on an upcoming book coauthored by James Frey. (Yes, Oprah’s James Frey.) Bay and Steven Spielberg are producing, and D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye) is directing.
What a fascinating blend of creative DNA. Smallville, Bay, Frey… oh my. Throw in the eminently watchable Copley and Number Four rockets up near the top of my favorite in-the-works projects.
What do you find most intriguing about this film? (It’s James Frey, isn’t it?)
Roswell?
as I read the plot, I thought isn’t that like Roswell? 4 teens sent to hide out on Earth with their shapeshifter guardians.
That it’s going to be filmed in Pittsburgh!
what’s so wrong with pittsbugrh?
Escape to Witch Mountain. Loved that book.
Oh Sharlto Copley, please don’t do this! Why because then I’ll be forced to fork over 10 dollars to see a Michael Bay movie, blech!
Millar and Gough made Clark Kent look like a clueless Superwimp on Smallville. More than likely going to do the same here. No thanks!
Sharlto, please step away from the Michael Bay. And stay far far away if you hope for a long, distinguished career.
Actually, if you read a summary of the plot of the book there are 6 teenagers that survived out of 9 and the book is about the 4 teen who is the next on the bad aliens hit list. Yeah, it does sound a little like Roswell, but if you ever read the Roswell High School book series the show went into a totally different direction. This movie might actually be interesting to watch really good sci-fi writers/directors involved.