Eagle Eye and Disturbia director D.J. Caruso has found another start for his new sci-fi film I Am Number Four. District 9 and upcoming A-Team star Sharlto Copley has joined, Heat Vision reports. He will play ” a man who hailed from the alien world’s serving class but now is the title character’s adult guardian and mentor.” That title character is British actor Alex Pettyfer. He is playing Four, “one of nine aliens who escape their home planet before its annihilation by a rival species and hide out on Earth disguised as human high schoolers.”
I can only hope that Caruso will lean more towards the interesting sci-fi angle than the alien as a high schooler angle. It is based on the six-book series that doesn’t come out until the fall, written by James Frey and Jobie Hughes. Al Gough and Miles Millar, creators of Smallville wrote the screenplay. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg will produce.
I really enjoyed Disturbia but Eagle Eye was pretty bad. This sounds like an interesting concept and I’m glad Caruso has moved on from Shia LaBeouf and trying something a bit new.
In related news Eagle Eye writer Travis Wright has been “hired to pen an adaptation of Here, There Be Dragons and The Search for the Red Dragon, the first two books in James A. Owen’s popular young-adult fantasy book series The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica. [/Film]
Are you a fan of Caruso’s films? Are you excited Copley has joined Number Four?