Caruso Takes A Number

D.J. Caruso will direct the film adaptation of "I Am Number Four " reports Heat Vision Blog

James Frey and Jobie Hughes upcoming sci-fi novel is about a group of nine earthbound alien teens who escaped their planet just before it was destroyed by a hostile species. While the high school-aged kids assimilate, the title character discovers that he is being hunted by the enemy that blew up his planet.

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar wrote the screenplay

Michael Bay will produce the pic.

The book, getting a release this Fall, is the first in a series of six.