Pettyfer Chronicles

Even as the release of book based flick I Am Number Four happens on Feb 18th--Star Alex Pettyfer may ditch one novel inspired pic for another says Vulture

Last week Pettyfer was in talks for a film adaptation of Cassandra Clare's supernatural novel series The Mortal Instruments.

Those negotiations have reached an impasse and Pettyfer won't do the pic confirmed this week by an open casting call that was announced for the role he was intended to play.

Pettyfer was offered the lead role in the film adaptation of Joseph Delaney’s best-selling series "The Last Apprentice" (aka."The Wardstone Chronicles"), a book series Alex is a fan of it seems.

The story deals with a teenage boy training to be an exorcist in the 1700s Jeff Bridges and Jennifer Lawrence are circling to play the boy's mentor, and a witch respectively

Russian director Sergey Bodrov (Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan) will call action