The Steven Spielberg / Michael Bay produced I Am Number Four opens in theaters this weekend, and represents the first in what Touchstone Pictures hopes is a long series of these films, based on the book of the same name, which is meant to be the first in a series of six. The novel is written by James Frey (of A Million Little Pieces fame), and Jobie Hughes. It was first published last August, and the second novel The Power of Six is due out later this year.
The film represents your prototypical story of a strange with powers struggling to discover his own identity, while also falling in love and struggling against authority and/or repression. In this case, it's one of the last survivors of an alien race struggling against genocide, while trying to unlock the secrets buried within that could help save them. Remarkably, the film is ripe for a video game adaptation, but of course given the problems that such projects seem to have, Disney/Touchstone (who doesn't have the best game/movie record) has stayed away from that territory.
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