MUMBAI: Director Michael Bay and DreamWorks are getting back into business together.
Yesterday, the studio finalised a deal to purchase pre-emptively the film rights to I Am Number Four, an unpublished science fiction book for Bay to produce and possibly direct too.
It is the first in a planned six-volume series co-written by A Million Little Pieces author James Frey.
The storyline of the film involves nine alien teens assimilating to high school on Earth after their planet is destroyed by an enemy species. The fourth of the group discovers that the enemy is now after him on Earth.
Bay approved of the concept enough to take the manuscript to DreamWorks principals Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg with whom he made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and they leapt at the chance to team up once more.
Spielberg‘s influence was heavy on the two Transformers films — he is credited as an executive producer — and he is expected to have a similar involvement with Four.
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