{"id":1726,"date":"2009-06-27T14:18:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/i-am-number-four\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T21:18:30","slug":"i-am-number-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/27\/i-am-number-four\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Number Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DREAMWORKS, FREY IN “FOUR” PLAY<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

By:\u00a0Mike Fleming
\nPublished: Fri, June 26, 2009, 12:06 PM\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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DreamWorks has acquired screen rights to \u201cI Am Number Four,\u201d the first of a six-book science fiction book series that has \u201cTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen\u201d director Michael Bay aboard to produce and possibly direct.<\/p>\n

DreamWorks is working on a high six-figure deal, sources said.<\/p>\n

The real surprise in the deal, though, is the identity of one of the two authors. Though WME began shopping the book Thursday under a pseudonym, sources said one of the writers is James Frey, best known for writing \u201cA Million Little Pieces.\u201d Neither the agency nor the studio would confirm.<\/p>\n

The deal puts Bay right back in business with DreamWorks and Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider. It is expected that Steven Spielberg will be as active in a behind the scenes capacity similar to the godfather role he has played in the \u201cTransformers\u201d franchise. The sale comes as \u201cTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen\u201d takes a run at the record books this weekend, after setting records on its first two days in theaters.<\/p>\n

The franchise 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.<\/p>\n

Both the publishing rights and the screen rights were shopped simultaneously, with Bay taking it into DreamWorks\/Disney, Columbia and Universal; J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot for Paramount; Bryan Singer for Fox, and BenderSpink for New Line and CBS.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Frey recently became a client of WME when his agent, Eric Simonoff, joined WMA from Janklow-Nesbit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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from Variety DREAMWORKS, FREY IN “FOUR” PLAY By:\u00a0Mike Fleming Published: Fri, June 26, 2009, 12:06 PM\u00a0     DreamWorks has acquired screen rights to \u201cI Am Number Four,\u201d the first of a six-book science fiction book series that has \u201cTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen\u201d director Michael Bay aboard to produce and possibly direct. DreamWorks is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}