{"id":2036,"date":"2009-09-26T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/09\/more-4\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:48:55","slug":"more-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/26\/more-4\/","title":{"rendered":"More 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Medina Gazette<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Local man\u2019s novel hits the big time<\/h1>\n

By: Lisa Hlavinka
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The movie rights were sold before a Spencer Township native\u2019s novel even hit store shelves.<\/p>\n

\"jobiehughes.jpg\"<\/a>Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay picked up the rights to Black River High School graduate Jobie Hughes\u2019 young adult novel, \u201cI Am Number Four,\u201d on June 26. The novel does not come out until September 2010.<\/p>\n

Spielberg and Bay were not the only ones interested in the novel. Represented by Beverly Hills-based Endeavor Talent Agency, Hughes said there was a bidding war between Spielberg and Bay and producer J.J. Abrams for rights to the story.\u201cThey bought the rights to an unpublished book \u2026 before we had interest in the book, the movie rights were done and sold,\u201d said Hughes, 29, who grew up in the township and now resides in New York City. \u201cUsually it\u2019s always done the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, DreamWorks LLC, a film studio co-founded by Spielberg, anticipates the film to be out in July 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty surreal,\u201d Hughes said via phone Sunday.<\/p>\n

Before the Hollywood glamour, however, came the task of writing \u201cI Am Number Four.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hughes has a co-author, James Frey, who wrote the memoir, \u201cA Million Little Pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hughes Hughes did not name Frey specifically, he said, because the partnership was originally supposed to be secret. However, other media have named Frey as the co-author of the book.<\/P><\/span><\/p>\n

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