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Michael Bay
DreamWorks Pictures has hired scribes Al Gough and Miles Millar to adapt I Am Number 4, the novel co-written by A Million Little Pieces author James Frey and Jobie Hughes. Considering that James Frey got busted for exaggerations and lies on his first book, I have to admit that I'm surprised the author is still going.
But I digress...
Michael Bay and DreamWorks Adapting I Am Number 4
Michael Bay has already joined the production to produce and, if things are to his liking, he will also direct. I Am Number 4 centers on a group of nine aliens whose home planet is destroyed. They escape to Earth disguised as teenagers, and the title character discovers he and the others are still being hunted by the enemy that destroyed their planet.
Gough and Millar are no strangers to extraterrestrials, as it was they who created Smallville.