BUOYED by the runaway success of Transformers sequel Revenge of the Fallen in the US ($200 million-plus in five days), Michael Bay and DreamWorks are to work together again on another sci-fi themed thriller.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the studio has completed a deal for the film rights to as-yet unpublished sci-fi novel I Am Number Four, with a view to allowing Bay to produce and possibly direct.

The book follows the fortunes of nine alien teens as they attempt to assimilate intoto high school on Earth after their planet is destroyed by an enemy species.

Matters become complicated, however, when the fourth member of the group discovers that the enemy is now pursuing them on Earth.

I Am Number Four is the first in a planned six-volume series co-written by James Frey – of A Million Little Pieces – and another unnamed author.

Bay is reported to have been so keen on the script that he personally took the manuscript to DreamWorks principals Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg, with whom he made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. They subsequently leapt at the chance to team up again.

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