Adaptation of I am number 4

I started a new book last week called I am Number 4 by Pittacus Lore, The book in my opinion was the best book I have ever read. So my job to day is to write some challenges the filmmaker might have ran into while adapting the book into a movie.

Before we start, I would like to give a brief background info of the book, (don’t worry no spoilers in it). “In the beginning there were nine of us” ( I put in a quote cause I thought it would be cool) so there were nine kids from a different plant that had come to our planet (AKA: “EARTH”) to hide from a hideous creature called “Mogadarian”, the Mogadarian are not creatures that like to mingle, they are the kind of creature that like to destroy other planets, the only way to stop them is by getting the 9 kids together, when the time is right and destroy the Mogadarians. 3/9 kids have died from the Mogadrian and next is John Smith’s turn, who is number 4. The book is basically about John Smith and his mentor hiding from the Mongadarians, along the way he meets important Character that will help him in his in the future. Well that is it for a “background info”, so let’s start the project.

I am Number four has already been adapted into a movie, if you haven’t noticed, but obviously like a good movie there must have been some difficulties in making the movie and here they are. In the book the intro was more detailed and had more events happening while in the movie they had to get rid of certain side storylines and shortened.