I am Number Four

Director: D.J. Caruso

Screenplay: Alfred Gough,Miles Millar and Marti Noxon

Cast: Alex Pettyfer,Dianna Agron,Teresa Palmer,Callan McAuliffe and Timothy Olyphant

After the famous Harry Potter series heres another teen-hero film that is an adaptation of the bestseller I Am Number Four.

It tells the story of nine teen aliens who possess special powers and can be killed only in a numerical order. With the first three aliens already dead,John Smith,the fourth alien,masks his true identity and turns into a typical high school student to elude a deadly enemy who wants to destroy him.

Director DJ Caruso says: I distinctively remember reading that DreamWorks had bought the rights of the book; it was around the time my film Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen had set a record at the box-office. Later,when I was busy working on my next film,The Art Of Making Money,I got a call from Steven Spielberg. He wanted me to direct a film on the book.

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Interestingly,the shooting of the film commenced even before the first volume of Freys and Hughess book I Am Number Four had been published. Real-life lovers Alex Pettyfer and Dianna Agron play a romantic couple in the film.