Here's what we know: according to
Variety, Dreamworks is working to preemptively buy the rights to
I Am Number Four, the first novel in a projected six-book sci-fi series, eyeing
Michael Bay to produce and possibly direct. The unpublished novel is being shopped around with the two authors represented by a single pseudonym. But the interest level rose when reports surfaced that one of the writers is
James Frey, who rose to fame,