‘Ben 10’ gets big screen makeover,turns to live-action

Silver said his sons clued him in to the world of Ben Tennyson,a boy who can transform into 10 different alien creatures with the help of a glove-like device called the Omnitrix.

“I think we have to try something fresh and go at it in a way that stays true to the original material. I have a 5-year-old and a 9-year-old,so it’s somewhere between them”,he said.

It’s not Silver’s first foray into kids’ action films. “I tried to do (something similar) with ‘Speed Racer’ and failed miserably. You always learn more from the ones that don’t work than the ones that do work”,he added.