I Am Number Four (2011) on Netflix
PG-1320111h 49mActionAdventureSci-Fi
John Smith is Number Four, a Lorien alien hiding on Earth with his guardian Henri while Mogadorians hunt the nine survivors. In Paradise, Ohio, he befriends Sam and falls for Sarah.
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John Smith is a Lorien alien living on Earth under an assumed name. He arrived as an infant with eight others, the Garde, after the Mogadorians destroyed their planet, and each child was given a guardian, John's being Henri. The Mogadorians can kill the nine only in sequence, three are already dead, and John is Number Four. He and Henri leave a beachside bungalow in Florida for a farm in Paradise, Ohio. There John befriends Sam Goode, a classmate mocked for his belief in extraterrestrial life, and a Beagle he names Bernie Kosar, and he falls for Sarah Hart, an amateur photographer whose ex-boyfriend, football player Mark James, torments John and Sam. John's powers are growing, and Henri urges him to stay unnoticed.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Am Number Four (2011)
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- Michael Bay brought the manuscript of the young adult novel I Am Number Four to Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg at DreamWorks, and a bidding war for the film rights developed between DreamWorks and J. J. Abrams, with DreamWorks winning the rights in June 2009.
- The fictional town of Paradise, Ohio was filmed in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, chosen as the film's "hero town" for its unique look and curved streets, laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York City's Central Park.
- Sharlto Copley was going to star as Henri, Number Four's guardian and mentor, but had to drop out due to press obligations with his film The A-Team, and was replaced by Timothy Olyphant.
- The rights were purchased with the hope of attracting teenage fans of The Twilight Saga films and establishing a franchise, with at least six more installments planned by the book's publisher.
- D. J. Caruso was brought on to direct in early 2010, after Bay opted to focus on the third film of the Transformers series, and had less than a year to prepare, shoot and edit because of a worldwide release date set for Presidents Day weekend.
- Asked about a sequel for the 10th anniversary of the film in 2021, Alex Pettyfer told Screen Rant that DreamWorks scrapped their whole slate of films at the time for funding reasons.
